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Val: Why do you go out there? Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice. Val: What advice do they give? Sandra: Just one word- live!

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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 believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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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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Luck is believing you're lucky.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath
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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's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.
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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 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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.
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Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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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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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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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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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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