Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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