You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe name of a person you love is more than language.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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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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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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