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 WILLIAMSI believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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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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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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