When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYouth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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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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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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