We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSNobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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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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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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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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