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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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We've had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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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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Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.
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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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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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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you--gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there?
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Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it.
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attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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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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When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.
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But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary
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I don't want realism. I want magic!
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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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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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