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Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about wine

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.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about mistery, revelation, character, life

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace, what you need is someone to take hold of you gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about grace, contentment, need, love, life, people

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about absent, fight, contentment, life

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about success, failure

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

Quote by Tennessee Williams about success, contentment

The future is called perhaps, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about future, things, contentment

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother, it's inflammatory.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about word, human imperfections

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about time

Why did I write, because I found life unsatisfactory.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about opinion, life

To be free is to have achieved your life.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about liberty, life

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

Quote by Tennessee Williams about doubt

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about time

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

Quote by Tennessee Williams about life

A gentleman can live through anything.

Quote by William Faulkner about opinion

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

Quote by William Faulkner about conscience, gods, dream, order, moral, rightness, man

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

Quote by William Faulkner about opinion, contentment

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Quote by William Faulkner about literature, writers, things

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

Quote by William Faulkner about opinion, perfection, failure, dream, impossible

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Quote by William Faulkner about ambition, dream, contentment