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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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Mendacity is a system that we live in, declares Brick. Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.
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Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?
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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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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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For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level.
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In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
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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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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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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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Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
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But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary
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Don't you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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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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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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Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles.
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We're left alone with each other. We have to creep close to each other and give gentle little nudges with our paws and our muzzles before we can slip into sleep and rest for the next day's playtime.
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If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.
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