Cat On A Hot Tin Roof Quotes

• Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.

  Tennessee Williams

  Way, Bricks, Liquor

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• 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

  Cat, Long, Victory

  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof act 1 (1955). Ellipses in the original.

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

  Tennessee Williams

  Life, Want, Guts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Tennessee Williams

  Beautiful, Giving Up, People

  Tennessee Williams (1986). “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, p.81, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

  Tennessee Williams

  Funny, Humor, World Suffering

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• People like to do what they used to do after they've stopped being able to do it.

  Paul Newman

  People, Able, Aging

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

  Tennessee Williams

  Cat, Hot, Tin

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• The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.

  Tennessee Williams

  Death, Animal, Giving

  Tennessee Williams (1991). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.88, New Directions Publishing

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• In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.

  Tennessee Williams

  Hate, Love You, Years

  Tennessee Williams (1991). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.78, New Directions Publishing

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• You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

  Tennessee Williams

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  Tennessee Williams (2004). “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, p.55, New Directions Publishing

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• Liquor is one way out an’ death’s the other.

  Tennessee Williams

  Way, Liquor, Mendacity

  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) act 2

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• The human animal is a beast that eventually has to die. If he's got money, he buys and he buys and he buys. The reason he buys everything he can is because of some crazy hope that one of the things he buys will be life everlasting.

  Burl Ives

  Death, Crazy, Animal

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• Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won or lost, and now that you've lost the game, not lost but just quit playing, you have that rare sort of charm that usually only happens in very old or hopelessly sick people, the charm of the defeated.

  Tennessee Williams

  Games, People, Sick

  Tennessee Williams (1991). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.30, New Directions Publishing

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• Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.

  Tennessee Williams

  Tin, Half, Time Goes By

  Tennessee Williams (2004). “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, p.161, New Directions Publishing

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• Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.

  Tennessee Williams

  Liars, Lying, Doors

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• Maggie the cat is alive. I'm alive.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Cat, Alive, Maggie

  "Fictional character: Maggie Pollitt". "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", www.imdb.com. 1958.

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• I don't know what love means.

  Imogen Cunningham

  Mean, Love Means, Knows

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• Just another four-letter word.

  Tennessee Williams

  Love, Four, Letters

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• When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

  Tennessee Williams

  Lonely, Loneliness, Selfish

  Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.8, New Directions Publishing

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• I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)

  Tennessee Williams

  Cages, Maggie

  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof act 1 (1955)

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• Like a cat on a hot tin roof.

  Tennessee Williams

  Cat, Hot, Tin

  "Fictional character: Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt". "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", www.imdb.com. 1958.

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• Switch clicking off in my head, turning the hot light off and the cool night on and — [He looks up, smiling sadly.] — all of a sudden there's—peace!

  Tennessee Williams

  Drinking, Light, Alcohol

  "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof".

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• Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. 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 Williams

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Giving Up

  Tennessee Williams (1971). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: Cat on a hot tin roof. Orpheus descending. Suddenly last summer”

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• I played Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

  Margo Martindale

  Cat, Years, Hot

  "Margo Martindale: A 'Justified' Moonshine Matriarch". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 12, 2011.

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• While you might see a cat on a hot tin roof, a dog on a hot tin roof would be yowling its head off.

  Bruce Fogle

  Dog, Cat, Hot

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