What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIf the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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