Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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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!
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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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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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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