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 WILLIAMSIf you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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