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Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

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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
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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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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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I don't have an audience in mind when I write. I'm writing mainly for myself. After a long devotion to playwriting I have a good inner ear. I know pretty well how a thing is going to sound on the stage, and how it will play. I write to satisfy this inner ear and its perceptions. That's the audience I write for.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
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Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.
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Mendacity is a system that we live in, declares Brick. Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.
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The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.
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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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My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights.
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Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down... So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function!
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles.
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Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
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If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.
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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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The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.
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