The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSPhysical 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!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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