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 WILLIAMSThe helpless can’t help the helpless.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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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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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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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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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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