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People go to the movies instead of moving.

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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
Novelist
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Screenwriter
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has problems, not just you, but practically everybody has got some problems. You think of yourself as having the only problems, as being the only one who is disappointed. But just look around you and you will see lots of people as disappointed as you are.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .
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When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.
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I must endure & endure & still endure.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.
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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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But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary
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To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them, or they had failed their eyes, and so they were having their fingers pressed forcibly down on the fiery Braille alphabet of a dissolving economy.
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Val: Why do you go out there? Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice. Val: What advice do they give? Sandra: Just one word- live!
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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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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
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Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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