I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThis 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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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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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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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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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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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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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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