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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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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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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 cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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We 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.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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