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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.

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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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