Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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