In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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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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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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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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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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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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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