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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
Novelist
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.
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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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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.
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Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.
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Young, gifted, and destitute.
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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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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I'm not in sympathy with Communism except for populations which are in a state of peasantry, actually hungry and starving. The ideal state for me is some form of Socialism, which doesn't yet exist, as far as I know, which doesn't repress the arts, or any race. Consequently I'm not a political person ... except that I'm a revolutionary.
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Oh, I haven't reached any peak. I hit the bottom in the '60s. When a certain actress undertook the leading role in a recent play of mine, she referred to me as that old derelict. Not to my face, but behind my back.
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Don't you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!
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Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down... So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function!
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Security is a kind of death.
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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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I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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