American - Dramatist | March 26, 1911 - February 25, 1983
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
Tennessee Williams
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If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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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?
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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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