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 WILLIAMSAnd then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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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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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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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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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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