Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSYouth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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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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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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