Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt’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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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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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All good art is an indiscretion.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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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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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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