Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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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.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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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!
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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