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

Tennessee Williams

Elegance
2

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Tennessee Williams

Frankness
3

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

Tennessee Williams

God
4

Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion.

Tennessee Williams

Bohemia
5

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Tennessee Williams

Suffering
6

Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!

Tennessee Williams

Sincerity
7

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Tennessee Williams

Time and Time Management
8

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

Tennessee Williams

Sensitivity
9

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.

Tennessee Williams

Motivation
10

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

Strangers
11

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Tennessee Williams

Memory
12

It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.

Tennessee Williams

Creativity
13

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

Tennessee Williams

Memory
14

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

Success
15

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

Tennessee Williams

Lies and Lying
16

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Tennessee Williams

Love
17

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Tennessee Williams

Success
18

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

Tennessee Williams

Brotherhood
19

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Tennessee Williams

Hypocrisy
20

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

Tennessee Williams

Change
21

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Tennessee Williams

Time and Time Management
22

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.

Tennessee Williams

Crisis
23

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

Tennessee Williams

Loneliness
24

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

Tennessee Williams

Suspicion
25

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

Tennessee Williams

Humankind
26

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!

Tennessee Williams

Isolation
27

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

Tennessee Williams

Loneliness
28

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

Tennessee Williams

Money
29

You said, They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people. -- What, I asked you, is harmless about a dreamer, and what, I asked you, is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

Tennessee Williams

Revolutions and Revolutionaries
30

You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got through short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with.

Tennessee Williams

Woman

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

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

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

Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!

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.

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.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.

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

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.

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

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

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

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

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

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

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.

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.

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

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!

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

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

You said, They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people. -- What, I asked you, is harmless about a dreamer, and what, I asked you, is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got through short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with.