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Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
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Thomas Lanier Williams III
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Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!
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The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.
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Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.
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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
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And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let's face it.
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We live on two levels ... the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really?
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