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Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
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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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
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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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Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!
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Young, gifted, and destitute.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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I don't want realism. I want magic!
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