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 WILLIAMSI’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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 it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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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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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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