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 only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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