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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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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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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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Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.
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Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families
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In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
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Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
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Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.
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attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.
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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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When I write I don't aim to shock people, and I'm surprised when I do. But I don't think that anything that occurs in life should be omitted from art, though the artist should present it in a fashion that is artistic and not ugly. I set out to tell the truth. And sometimes the truth is shocking.
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