We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhat is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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