Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAdd 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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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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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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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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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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