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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
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A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!
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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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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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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 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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Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
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All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.
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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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Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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