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 WILLIAMSWhat is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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