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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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Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.
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Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
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My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights.
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For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .
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I must endure & endure & still endure.
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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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I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place, a building...a house...of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can...well, nest.
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Mendacity is a system that we live in, declares Brick. Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.
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The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.
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Young, gifted, and destitute.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Oh, I haven't reached any peak. I hit the bottom in the '60s. When a certain actress undertook the leading role in a recent play of mine, she referred to me as that old derelict. Not to my face, but behind my back.
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Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.
Tennessee Williams
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families
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Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.
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