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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Tennessee Williams

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

Tennessee Williams

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

Tennessee Williams

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

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

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All good art is an indiscretion.

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

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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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Luck is believing you're lucky.

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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.

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Success and failure are equally disastrous.

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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.

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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

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Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

Tennessee Williams