Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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