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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.

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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
Sometimes
Quickly
Like
Clouds
Complete
Blue
Space
Overcast
Running
Openings
Light
Blaze
Come
Opening

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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home to eat pone, sip mint juleps, and flog the field hands. This more than anything cultivated my life-long aversion to bicycles.
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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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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Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
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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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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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Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.
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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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How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.
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Oh, I haven't reached any peak. I hit the bottom in the '60s. When a certain actress undertook the leading role in a recent play of mine, she referred to me as that old derelict. Not to my face, but behind my back.
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The helpless can't help the helpless.
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I talk out the lines as I write them.
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The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.
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No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.
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I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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