“A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.”
And
“All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.”
And
“Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.”
And
“Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.”
And
“Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.”
And
“For time is the longest distance between two places.”
And
“Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.”
And
“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.”
And
“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.”
And
“If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.”
And
“In memory everything seems to happen to music.”
And
“Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.”
And
“Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.”
And
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
And
Luck is believing you’re lucky.
And
“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.”
And
“Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.”
And
“Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.”
And
“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.”
And
“Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.”
And
“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.”
And
“Success and failure are equally disastrous.”
And
“Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.”
And
“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.”
And
“The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!”
And
“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?”
And
“Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.”
And
“To be free is to have achieved your life.”
And
“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.”
And
“When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.”
And
“Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.”
And
“You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.”
And
“The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one’s office for a job.”
Wikipedia: Tennessee Williams
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