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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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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.
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I'm not in sympathy with Communism except for populations which are in a state of peasantry, actually hungry and starving. The ideal state for me is some form of Socialism, which doesn't yet exist, as far as I know, which doesn't repress the arts, or any race. Consequently I'm not a political person ... except that I'm a revolutionary.
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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
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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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All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.
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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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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.
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