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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
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level.
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Switch clicking off in my head, turning the hot light off and the cool night on and — [He looks up, smiling sadly.] — all of a sudden there's—peace!
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
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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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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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I don't want realism. I want magic!
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary
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Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!
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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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