A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSNothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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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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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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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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