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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
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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Wild
Kept
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Heart

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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states.
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For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.
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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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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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I'm tired and it's taking an increasing amount out of me, more than I have to give physically. And that's why I want to move to Sicily and buy that little farm and raise a flock of goats and geese. I find it peaceful ... and it would be a nice way to end life.
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When I write I don't aim to shock people, and I'm surprised when I do. But I don't think that anything that occurs in life should be omitted from art, though the artist should present it in a fashion that is artistic and not ugly. I set out to tell the truth. And sometimes the truth is shocking.
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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
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We've had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.
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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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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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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
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