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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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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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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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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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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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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