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attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.
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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
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Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
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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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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 you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.
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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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I don't want realism. I want magic!
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Security is a kind of death.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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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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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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If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.
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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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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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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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Luck is believing you're lucky.
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The helpless can't help the helpless.
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I'm tired and it's taking an increasing amount out of me, more than I have to give physically. And that's why I want to move to Sicily and buy that little farm and raise a flock of goats and geese. I find it peaceful ... and it would be a nice way to end life.
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