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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
Gifted
Young
Destitute

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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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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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We live on two levels ... the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really?
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An artist must believe in himself - Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence - but passionately. Your belief is contagious. Others say - He is vain - but they are affected.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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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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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!
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I must endure & endure & still endure.
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Like a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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