Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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 always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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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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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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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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?
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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