Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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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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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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