Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTake by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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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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