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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
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My '60s plays were as good as most of the other plays I've written ... except I wasn't in a condition to refine them, to help in the rehearsal, or do anything. I was hardly conscious of what was going on except during the hours of the day when I was actually writing ... and that was with the aid of speed.
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Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.
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Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.
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When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.
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Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!
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How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.
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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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No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.
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I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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 think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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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 can find almost anything funny, thank God, so you search for the black, lacy slip that encases the corpse. You know, shift the angle. God may take away, but he often leaves you with a terrific opening line for the next adventure. I would suggest taking it. Move on change the angle look at it in a different way tomorrow.
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