A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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 object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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Some things are not forgiveable.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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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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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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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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