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 WILLIAMSDon’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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