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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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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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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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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