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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Security is a kind of death.
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I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place, a building...a house...of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can...well, nest.
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I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II
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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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Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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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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We're left alone with each other. We have to creep close to each other and give gentle little nudges with our paws and our muzzles before we can slip into sleep and rest for the next day's playtime.
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