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 WILLIAMSIn 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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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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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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