Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSomething in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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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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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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