A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSNothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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