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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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Drama

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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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I don't want realism. I want magic!
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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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For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .
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Young, gifted, and destitute.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table.
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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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If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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The helpless can't help the helpless.
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The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.
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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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Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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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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An artist must believe in himself - Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence - but passionately. Your belief is contagious. Others say - He is vain - but they are affected.
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