Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSNothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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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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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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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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