A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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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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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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