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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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Thomas Lanier Williams III
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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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Don't you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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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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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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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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I can find almost anything funny, thank God, so you search for the black, lacy slip that encases the corpse. You know, shift the angle. God may take away, but he often leaves you with a terrific opening line for the next adventure. I would suggest taking it. Move on change the angle look at it in a different way tomorrow.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary
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I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place, a building...a house...of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can...well, nest.
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If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.
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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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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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How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.
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Young, gifted, and destitute.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!
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Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.
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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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Mendacity is a system that we live in, declares Brick. Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.
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