You can be young without money but you can’t be old without 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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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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