Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDon’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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