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Tennessee Williams

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

- Tennessee Williams

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

- Tennessee Williams

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“All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.”

- Tennessee Williams

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“All good art is an indiscretion.”

- Tennessee Williams

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

- 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.”

- Tennessee Williams

Source/Notes: The Night of the Iguana, Act Two
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Tennessee Williams

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

- Tennessee Williams

Source/Notes: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams, Volume 5 (1976), p. 86, "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore," Scene V
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Tennessee Williams

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

- Tennessee Williams

Source/Notes: As quoted in: Observer, January 26, 1958
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Tennessee Williams

“Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.”

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“For time is the longest distance between two places.”

- Tennessee Williams

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

- Tennessee Williams

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“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.”

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“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”

- Tennessee Williams

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