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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

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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
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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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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Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states.
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Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. In the time of your life--live! That time is short and it doesn't return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its oppositi
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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families
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Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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Security is a kind of death.
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Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down... So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function!
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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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Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.
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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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If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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