Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhen I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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What 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.
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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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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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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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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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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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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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