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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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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
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