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Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!

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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
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Dreamer
Selfish
Moon

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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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