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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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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you--gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there?
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Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.
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Security is a kind of death.
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Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.
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Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
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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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