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Tennessee Williams
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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
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Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
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Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down... So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function!
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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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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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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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Security is a kind of death.
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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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And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle.
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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
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If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
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Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.
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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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Mendacity is a system that we live in, declares Brick. Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.
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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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Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.
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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
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Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.
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