Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYou can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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 you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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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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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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