Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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