Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIn all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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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 was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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