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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
Destitute
Gifted
Young

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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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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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A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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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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I don't have an audience in mind when I write. I'm writing mainly for myself. After a long devotion to playwriting I have a good inner ear. I know pretty well how a thing is going to sound on the stage, and how it will play. I write to satisfy this inner ear and its perceptions. That's the audience I write for.
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Switch clicking off in my head, turning the hot light off and the cool night on and — [He looks up, smiling sadly.] — all of a sudden there's—peace!
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I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place, a building...a house...of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can...well, nest.
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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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.
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Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families
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My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II
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I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.
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I talk out the lines as I write them.
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In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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