Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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The 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.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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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 violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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 am more faithful than I intended to be!
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