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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
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Thomas Lanier Williams III
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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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To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them, or they had failed their eyes, and so they were having their fingers pressed forcibly down on the fiery Braille alphabet of a dissolving economy.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
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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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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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Security is a kind of death.
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Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?
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When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.
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For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level.
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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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Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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--gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there?
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If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.
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