Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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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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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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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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