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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhen I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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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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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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