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 WILLIAMSThere is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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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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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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