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 WILLIAMSTo change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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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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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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