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" If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed. "

Tennessee Williams

I Am

People

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" All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. "

" We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. "

Tennessee Williams

Just

Work

" All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent. "

" Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is. "

" Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. "

" There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. "

Tennessee Williams

Departure

Even

" Death is one moment, and life is so many of them. "

" 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. "

" All good art is an indiscretion. "

" When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing. "

" Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you. "

" What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains. "

" Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question. "

" Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. "

" We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. "

" The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. "

" We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. "

" I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success. "

" When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. "

" Success and failure are equally disastrous. "

" I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really. "

" The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory. "