Tennessee Williams Quotes

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• Security is a kind of death.
• We're left alone with each other. We have to creep close to each other and give gentle little nudges with our paws and our muzzles…
• A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.
• Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
• I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.
• Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
• Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability…
• Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof...
• It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.
• Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.
• Things have a way of turning out so badly.
• But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected…
• I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair,…
• Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
• Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each…
• The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't…
• All good art is an indiscretion.
• Like a Cat on a hot tin roof
• Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.
• Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!

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