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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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We've had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Like a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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Young, gifted, and destitute.
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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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In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
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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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A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
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A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.
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Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.
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I'm not in sympathy with Communism except for populations which are in a state of peasantry, actually hungry and starving. The ideal state for me is some form of Socialism, which doesn't yet exist, as far as I know, which doesn't repress the arts, or any race. Consequently I'm not a political person ... except that I'm a revolutionary.
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Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families
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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
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To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them, or they had failed their eyes, and so they were having their fingers pressed forcibly down on the fiery Braille alphabet of a dissolving economy.
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We live on two levels ... the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really?
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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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Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.
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Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states.
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