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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!
Tennessee Williams
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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
Novelist
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!
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Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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