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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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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
Beauty
Passings
Taken
Possession
Away
Passing
Spirit
Increase
Heart
Physical
Mind
Aren
Transitory
Years
Grow
Richness
Things
Grows
Tenderness

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