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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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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
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Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!
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In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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An artist must believe in himself - Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence - but passionately. Your belief is contagious. Others say - He is vain - but they are affected.
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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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Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
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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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We've had this date with each other from the beginning.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?
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But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary
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There's no better credit card in the world than driving up at a bank door in a Cadillac limousine.
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I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry’s poetry. It doesn’t have to be called a poem, you know.
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Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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