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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
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.
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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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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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attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.
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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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Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.
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In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
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Security is a kind of death.
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Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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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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How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.
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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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But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary
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Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!
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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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