When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSVanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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