I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYour belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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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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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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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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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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