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 WILLIAMSLife is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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