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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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Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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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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Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states.
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Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.
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I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry’s poetry. It doesn’t have to be called a poem, you know.
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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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And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has problems, not just you, but practically everybody has got some problems. You think of yourself as having the only problems, as being the only one who is disappointed. But just look around you and you will see lots of people as disappointed as you are.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.
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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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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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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
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