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 WILLIAMSTo be free is to have achieved your life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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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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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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