Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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