Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI don’t want realism. I want magic!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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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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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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