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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
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Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.
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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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We've had this date with each other from the beginning.
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It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.
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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
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Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.
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Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
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Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.
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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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The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.
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A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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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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I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.
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