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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
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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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 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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.
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In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
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People go to the movies instead of moving.
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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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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
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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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Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!
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I don't want realism. I want magic!
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
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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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you--gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there?
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A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.
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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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Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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I must endure & endure & still endure.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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