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Luck is believing you're lucky.
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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Poet
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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I don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.
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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 helpless can't help the helpless.
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I don't want realism. I want magic!
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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I don't have an audience in mind when I write. I'm writing mainly for myself. After a long devotion to playwriting I have a good inner ear. I know pretty well how a thing is going to sound on the stage, and how it will play. I write to satisfy this inner ear and its perceptions. That's the audience I write for.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.
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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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Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!
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Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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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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There's no better credit card in the world than driving up at a bank door in a Cadillac limousine.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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I'm tired and it's taking an increasing amount out of me, more than I have to give physically. And that's why I want to move to Sicily and buy that little farm and raise a flock of goats and geese. I find it peaceful ... and it would be a nice way to end life.
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Like a cat on a hot tin roof.
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