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 WILLIAMSSuccess and failure are equally disastrous.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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