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Tennessee Williams
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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
Novelist
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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I know all about the tyranny of women.
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Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?
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Val: Why do you go out there? Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice. Val: What advice do they give? Sandra: Just one word- live!
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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
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Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you--gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there?
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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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No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.
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Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.
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Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.
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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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Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it.
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Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home to eat pone, sip mint juleps, and flog the field hands. This more than anything cultivated my life-long aversion to bicycles.
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Switch clicking off in my head, turning the hot light off and the cool night on and — [He looks up, smiling sadly.] — all of a sudden there's—peace!
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I talk out the lines as I write them.
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How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
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