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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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I talk out the lines as I write them.
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My '60s plays were as good as most of the other plays I've written ... except I wasn't in a condition to refine them, to help in the rehearsal, or do anything. I was hardly conscious of what was going on except during the hours of the day when I was actually writing ... and that was with the aid of speed.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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Mendacity is a system that we live in, declares Brick. Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.
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Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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I don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.
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attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.
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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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Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.
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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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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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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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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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I must endure & endure & still endure.
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