Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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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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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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