Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTalent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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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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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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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 blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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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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