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!”
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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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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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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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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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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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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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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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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