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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
Thomas Williams
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Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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I must endure & endure & still endure.
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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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Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!
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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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Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.
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Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Don't you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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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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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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Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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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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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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I know all about the tyranny of women.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
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