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?
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What 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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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