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 helpless can’t help the helpless.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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