All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWilliam 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!”
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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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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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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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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