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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
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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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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For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let's face it.
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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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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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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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-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
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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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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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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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Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
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I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II
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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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Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Security is a kind of death.
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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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