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!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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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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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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