I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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