Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDeliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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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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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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