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 WilliamsSuccess and failure are equally disastrous.
Tennessee WilliamsI'm a rich man, Brick, yep, I'm a mighty rich man. Y'know how much I'm worth? Guess, Brick! Guess how much I'm worth! Close to ten million in cash an' blue chip stocks, outside, mind you, of twenty-eight thousand acres of the richest land this side of the valley Nile! But a man can't buy his life with it, he can't buy back his life with it when his life has been spent, that's one thing not offered in the Europe fire-sale or in the American markets or any markets on earth, a man can't buy his life with it, he can't buy back his life when his life is finished...
Big Daddy: (pp. 65)
Wer ein schlechtes Gedächtnis hat, dem bleibt keine andere Wahl als die Wahrheit zu sagen.
Tennessee WilliamsTags: life
Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
Tennessee WilliamsWhen so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Tennessee WilliamsTags: paradox loneliness
Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.
Tennessee WilliamsTags: drama
I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
Tennessee WilliamsTags: hatred understanding-others
Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
Tennessee WilliamsTags: cruelty
I suppose 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. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
Tennessee WilliamsTags: identification hysteria fragile desperate frightened reaching-out
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