Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOnce you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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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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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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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