I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSNothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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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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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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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.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but 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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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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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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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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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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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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