Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYou see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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I 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.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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