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How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.

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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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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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We live on two levels ... the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really?
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.
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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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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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