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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 only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Quote by Tennessee Williams about lie, things

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?

Quote by Tennessee Williams about truth, love, work, time, life, contentment

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about opinion, rocks

Time is the longest distance between two places.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about time

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.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about opinion, fire, fire brigade, home, house

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.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about opinion, heart, human imperfections

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about literature, rest, writing, day

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

Quote by Tennessee Williams about solitude

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about money, old, olderness, contentment

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Quote by Tennessee Williams about religion, education, knowledge

Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer...

Quote by William Golding about opinion, old, vice, americans, beauty, character, age, olderness, people

To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be - I hope it is - redemption to...

Quote by William Golding about world, hell, beauty, hope, faith, man

Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.

Quote by William Golding about childhood, contentment

Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between...

Quote by William Golding about people, metaphors, things, beginning, fall, society, end, man, life

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Quote by William M. Thackeray about laughter, home, house, good, good luck

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

Quote by William M. Thackeray about bad, light, people

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

Quote by William M. Thackeray about courage, fashion

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Quote by William M. Thackeray about love, things

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

Quote by William M. Thackeray about world, man, face