Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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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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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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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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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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