Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhen I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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