Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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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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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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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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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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