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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
Writer
Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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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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The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.
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We've had this date with each other from the beginning.
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It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.
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Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.
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Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.
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Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.
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Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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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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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.
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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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A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
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