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Tennessee Williams Quotes: "Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof."

Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "If you can't be yourself, what's the point of being anyone else?"

If you can't be yourself, what's the point of being anyone else?




Tennessee Williams Quotes: "Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light."

Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write."

It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.




Tennessee Williams Quotes: "What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?"

What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts."

There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "All good art is an indiscretion."

All good art is an indiscretion.




Tennessee Williams Quotes: "The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory."

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself."

I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense."

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence."

Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment."

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.




Tennessee Williams Quotes: "The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job."

The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding."

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance."

Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "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."

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.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance."

You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation."

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it."

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "Not facing a fire doesn't put it out."

Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "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."

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.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "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?"

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?



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal."

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour."

We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken."

How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty."

The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels."

If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama."

Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it."

You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "attempting to find in motion what was lost in space."

attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle."

And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!"

There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent."

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "Death is one moment, and life is so many of them."

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?"

Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "Like a cat on a hot tin roof."

Like a cat on a hot tin roof.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "Security is a kind of death."

Security is a kind of death.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "I am more faithful than I intended to be!"

I am more faithful than I intended to be!



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles."

Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn't love you."

Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn't love you.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?"

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!"

Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "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."

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 Williams Quotes: "Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you"

Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation."

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease."

I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing."

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.



Tennessee Williams Quotes: "We've had this date with each other from the beginning."

We've had this date with each other from the beginning.