Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSDeliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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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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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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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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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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