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 WILLIAMSMen don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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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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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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