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 WILLIAMSTo be free is to have achieved your life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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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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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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