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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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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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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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Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.
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If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.
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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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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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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 helpless can't help the helpless.
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Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!
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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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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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People go to the movies instead of moving.
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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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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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Mendacity is a system that we live in, declares Brick. Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.
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Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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