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I don't want realism. I want magic!
Tennessee Williams
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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
Novelist
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
Desire
Blanche
Realism
Magic
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When I write I don't aim to shock people, and I'm surprised when I do. But I don't think that anything that occurs in life should be omitted from art, though the artist should present it in a fashion that is artistic and not ugly. I set out to tell the truth. And sometimes the truth is shocking.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let's face it.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .
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Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. In the time of your life--live! That time is short and it doesn't return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its oppositi
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All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.
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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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attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.
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There's no better credit card in the world than driving up at a bank door in a Cadillac limousine.
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