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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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