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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
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Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?
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But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary
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Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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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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The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.
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Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.
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Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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I don't want realism. I want magic!
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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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-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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