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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
Novelist
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Poet
Screenwriter
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.
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Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
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To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them, or they had failed their eyes, and so they were having their fingers pressed forcibly down on the fiery Braille alphabet of a dissolving economy.
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Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
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People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has problems, not just you, but practically everybody has got some problems. You think of yourself as having the only problems, as being the only one who is disappointed. But just look around you and you will see lots of people as disappointed as you are.
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But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary
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We've had this date with each other from the beginning.
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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?
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