A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSHe gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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 strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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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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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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Physical 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!
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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