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.
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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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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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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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