If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAdd 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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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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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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