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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


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


— Tennessee Williams


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For time is the longest distance between two places.


— Tennessee Williams


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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


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


— Tennessee Williams


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


— Tennessee Williams


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


— Tennessee Williams


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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.


— Tennessee Williams


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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.


— 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.


— Tennessee Williams


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Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26 1911 – February 25 1983) was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories novels poetry essays screenplays and a volume of memoirs. His professional career lasted from the mid-1930s until his death in 1983 and saw the creation of many plays that are regarded as classics of the American stage.

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