I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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