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How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.
Tennessee Williams
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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
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.
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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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Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.
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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?
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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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Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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I'm not in sympathy with Communism except for populations which are in a state of peasantry, actually hungry and starving. The ideal state for me is some form of Socialism, which doesn't yet exist, as far as I know, which doesn't repress the arts, or any race. Consequently I'm not a political person ... except that I'm a revolutionary.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Like a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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We've had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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