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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
Destitute
Gifted
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Oh, I haven't reached any peak. I hit the bottom in the '60s. When a certain actress undertook the leading role in a recent play of mine, she referred to me as that old derelict. Not to my face, but behind my back.
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There's no better credit card in the world than driving up at a bank door in a Cadillac limousine.
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Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.
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attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.
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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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Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.
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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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Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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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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The helpless can't help the helpless.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary
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When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.
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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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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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