You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll good art is an indiscretion.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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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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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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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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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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