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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
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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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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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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Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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Mendacity is a system that we live in, declares Brick. Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.
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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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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 always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.
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We've had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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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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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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Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states.
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People go to the movies instead of moving.
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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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