All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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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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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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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.
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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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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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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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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