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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
Writer
Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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Prayer
Heart
Cages
Wild

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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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Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry’s poetry. It doesn’t have to be called a poem, you know.
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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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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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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.
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I can find almost anything funny, thank God, so you search for the black, lacy slip that encases the corpse. You know, shift the angle. God may take away, but he often leaves you with a terrific opening line for the next adventure. I would suggest taking it. Move on change the angle look at it in a different way tomorrow.
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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