They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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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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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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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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