The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSNothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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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 don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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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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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?
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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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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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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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