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 WILLIAMSLiving with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have 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 lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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