Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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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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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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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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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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