Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSSnatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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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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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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