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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
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Thomas Lanier Williams III
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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.
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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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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in 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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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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Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart
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Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.
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There's no better credit card in the world than driving up at a bank door in a Cadillac limousine.
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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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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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Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.
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We've had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let's face it.
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All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.
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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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