Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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