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?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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