A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll good art is an indiscretion.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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 good art is an indiscretion.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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