A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSJust tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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The 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.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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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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