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In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.
The last is much the worst, the last is the real tragedy. -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900...
I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity.
Moral people, as they...
People fashion God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)...
Security is a kind of death. -- Tennessee Williams (1914-1983)
A deaf, dumb and blind idiot could have made a better world than this.
-- Tennessee Williams (1914-1983) interview in Esquire Sept. 1971...
Hell is yourself. When you ignore other people completely, that is hell.
-- Tennessee Williams (1914-1983) quoted in Time 9 March 1962...
Freedom is an indivisible word.
If a man could kill his illusions he'd become a god.
-- Colin Wilson (1931- ) "Ritual in the Dark" (1960)...
Marxism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
-- Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) "Memoirs of Hecate County" (1949)...
By "radical" I understand one who goes too far; by "conservative" one who does not go far enough
by "reactionary" one who won't go at all. -- Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) speech NYC 29 Jan....

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