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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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
Thomas Williams
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All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.
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Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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People go to the movies instead of moving.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
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For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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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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If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.
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Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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I don't want realism. I want magic!
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It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.
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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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There's no better credit card in the world than driving up at a bank door in a Cadillac limousine.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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