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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
Young
Destitute
Gifted

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A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.
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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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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 don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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I'm not in sympathy with Communism except for populations which are in a state of peasantry, actually hungry and starving. The ideal state for me is some form of Socialism, which doesn't yet exist, as far as I know, which doesn't repress the arts, or any race. Consequently I'm not a political person ... except that I'm a revolutionary.
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I don't want realism. I want magic!
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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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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath
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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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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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Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.
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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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The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.
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