And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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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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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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