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Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.
Tennessee Williams
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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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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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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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I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry’s poetry. It doesn’t have to be called a poem, you know.
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For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level.
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attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.
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For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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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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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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