Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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