When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI don’t want realism. I want magic!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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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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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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