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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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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!
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Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. In the time of your life--live! That time is short and it doesn't return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its oppositi
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The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.
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For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .
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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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Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down... So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function!
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
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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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.
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Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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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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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 left alone with each other. We have to creep close to each other and give gentle little nudges with our paws and our muzzles before we can slip into sleep and rest for the next day's playtime.
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