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attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.
Tennessee Williams
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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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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
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A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let's face it.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.
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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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Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!
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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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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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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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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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My '60s plays were as good as most of the other plays I've written ... except I wasn't in a condition to refine them, to help in the rehearsal, or do anything. I was hardly conscious of what was going on except during the hours of the day when I was actually writing ... and that was with the aid of speed.
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Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.
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Val: Why do you go out there? Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice. Val: What advice do they give? Sandra: Just one word- live!
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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