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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
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Cleveland
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Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!
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A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.
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Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
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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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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
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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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I don't have an audience in mind when I write. I'm writing mainly for myself. After a long devotion to playwriting I have a good inner ear. I know pretty well how a thing is going to sound on the stage, and how it will play. I write to satisfy this inner ear and its perceptions. That's the audience I write for.
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I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.
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In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states.
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I know all about the tyranny of women.
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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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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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-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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Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!
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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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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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