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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.

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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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Cleveland

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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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Luck is believing you're lucky.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.
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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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The helpless can't help the helpless.
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Switch clicking off in my head, turning the hot light off and the cool night on and — [He looks up, smiling sadly.] — all of a sudden there's—peace!
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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Val: Why do you go out there? Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice. Val: What advice do they give? Sandra: Just one word- live!
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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I can find almost anything funny, thank God, so you search for the black, lacy slip that encases the corpse. You know, shift the angle. God may take away, but he often leaves you with a terrific opening line for the next adventure. I would suggest taking it. Move on change the angle look at it in a different way tomorrow.
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-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table.
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I'm tired and it's taking an increasing amount out of me, more than I have to give physically. And that's why I want to move to Sicily and buy that little farm and raise a flock of goats and geese. I find it peaceful ... and it would be a nice way to end life.
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If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.
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All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.
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Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.
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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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attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.
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