Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDevils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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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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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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