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People go to the movies instead of moving.
Tennessee Williams
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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
Menagerie
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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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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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Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.
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Oh, I haven't reached any peak. I hit the bottom in the '60s. When a certain actress undertook the leading role in a recent play of mine, she referred to me as that old derelict. Not to my face, but behind my back.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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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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My '60s plays were as good as most of the other plays I've written ... except I wasn't in a condition to refine them, to help in the rehearsal, or do anything. I was hardly conscious of what was going on except during the hours of the day when I was actually writing ... and that was with the aid of speed.
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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
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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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I'm not in sympathy with Communism except for populations which are in a state of peasantry, actually hungry and starving. The ideal state for me is some form of Socialism, which doesn't yet exist, as far as I know, which doesn't repress the arts, or any race. Consequently I'm not a political person ... except that I'm a revolutionary.
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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.
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Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states.
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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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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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