The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSNothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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