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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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Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Young, gifted, and destitute.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!
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Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.
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Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.
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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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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
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Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
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Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles.
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to totally arbitrary killing on stage, or pointless gunfire, at least it'll catch their attention and keep them awake. Just keep the thing going any way you can.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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