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- Tennessee Williams: American playwright
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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As somebody who thinks Tennessee history is important, I want to make certain that's still a part of the curriculum. I think that's critical for the people growing up in our school system.
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At the end of the day, I'm certainly hopeful they can leave some time to focus on Tennessee history. But we understand the struggle when it comes to curriculum time and what you just physically don't have time for.
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Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion.
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Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
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Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5, and Samuel Beckett one - and maybe a clone of that one. I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.
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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!
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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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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If we are recognizing the Bible as a sacred text, then we are violating the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Tennessee by designating it as the official state book.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
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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.
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