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| Tennessee Williams
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent. Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person. I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. 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. Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other. Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. 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. Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. Security is a kind of death. 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. The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite! There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. 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. We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains. You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got through short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with. |
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