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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDon’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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