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Tennessee Williams [1911-1983] American

Rank: 11
Dramatist, Playwright

Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American playwright and author of many stage classics. Along with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller he is considered among the three foremost playwrights in 20th-century American drama.

Success, Work, Alone, Failure, God, Time, Art, Death, Future, Life, Nature, Saint Patrick's Day

Quote	Tags	Rank
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!		101
For time is the longest distance between two places.	Time	102
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.	God, Work	103
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.		104
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.	Success	105
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?	Time, Work	106
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.		107
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.		108
To be free is to have achieved your life.	Life	109
Luck is believing you're lucky.	Saint Patrick's Day	110
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.		111
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.	Alone	112
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.	Alone	113
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.		114
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.		115
Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.		116
All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.	God, Work	117
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.		118
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.		119
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.		120
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.		121
Success and failure are equally disastrous.	Failure, Success	122
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.		123
I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.		124
Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.		125
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.	Success	126
Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.		201
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.	Nature	202
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.		203
The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.		204
In memory everything seems to happen to music.		205
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.		206
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.		207
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.		208
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.		209
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.	Death	210
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.	Future	211
You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.		212
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.	Failure	213
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.		214
All good art is an indiscretion.	Art	215
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.		216
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.		217
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.		218
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.		219
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.		220

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