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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
Tennessee Williams
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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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Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
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I know all about the tyranny of women.
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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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Security is a kind of death.
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My '60s plays were as good as most of the other plays I've written ... except I wasn't in a condition to refine them, to help in the rehearsal, or do anything. I was hardly conscious of what was going on except during the hours of the day when I was actually writing ... and that was with the aid of speed.
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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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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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The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Young, gifted, and destitute.
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I talk out the lines as I write them.
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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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People go to the movies instead of moving.
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Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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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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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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