Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt’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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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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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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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