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 WILLIAMSThe 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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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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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 biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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