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!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSAll good art is an indiscretion.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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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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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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