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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.
Tennessee Williams
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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
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I talk out the lines as I write them.
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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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.
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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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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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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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What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to totally arbitrary killing on stage, or pointless gunfire, at least it'll catch their attention and keep them awake. Just keep the thing going any way you can.
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