Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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