A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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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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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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