There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSPhysical 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!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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