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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
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Columbus
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Thomas Lanier Williams III
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-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table.
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Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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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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Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.
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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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How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Switch clicking off in my head, turning the hot light off and the cool night on and — [He looks up, smiling sadly.] — all of a sudden there's—peace!
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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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Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?
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We live on two levels ... the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really?
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.
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For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .
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