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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
Novelist
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Poet
Screenwriter
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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Val: Why do you go out there? Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice. Val: What advice do they give? Sandra: Just one word- live!
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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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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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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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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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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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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People go to the movies instead of moving.
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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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Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
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Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down... So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function!
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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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Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
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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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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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