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" The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. 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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" 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. "

Tennessee Williams

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

" Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other. "

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

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

Tennessee Williams

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" Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself. "

" 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. "

" All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness. "

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

" Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life. "

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

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

" To be free is to have achieved your life. "

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

" You can be young without money but you can't be old without it. "

" If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. "

" Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person. "

" Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. "

" Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. "

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

" 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. "

" A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. "

" For time is the longest distance between two places. "

" I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. "

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

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

" Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory. "

" The future is called 'perhaps', which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you. "

" A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. "

" 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

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