There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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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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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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