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 WILLIAMSIt is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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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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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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