Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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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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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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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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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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