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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
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
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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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A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
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I know all about the tyranny of women.
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Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!
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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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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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Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.
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And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle.
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Like a cat on a hot tin roof.
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I don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Val: Why do you go out there? Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice. Val: What advice do they give? Sandra: Just one word- live!
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Luck is believing you're lucky.
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