Tennessee Williams - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)

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

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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?

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Nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof—is there? Is there, baby?

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No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.

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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.

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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.

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

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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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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.

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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.

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Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an' death's the other.

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Brick: Well, they say nature hates a vacuum, Big Daddy.
Big Daddy: That's what they say, but sometimes I think that a vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

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And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into...

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A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.

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Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.

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