Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSA high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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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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