Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYour belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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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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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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