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 WILLIAMSThe right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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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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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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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 can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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