Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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