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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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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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What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to totally arbitrary killing on stage, or pointless gunfire, at least it'll catch their attention and keep them awake. Just keep the thing going any way you can.
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Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
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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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In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
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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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I don't want realism. I want magic!
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has problems, not just you, but practically everybody has got some problems. You think of yourself as having the only problems, as being the only one who is disappointed. But just look around you and you will see lots of people as disappointed as you are.
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.
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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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Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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