How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSVanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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In 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.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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