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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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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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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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