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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
Novelist
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Poet
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
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The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.
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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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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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In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle.
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Like a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Don't you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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We're left alone with each other. We have to creep close to each other and give gentle little nudges with our paws and our muzzles before we can slip into sleep and rest for the next day's playtime.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.
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Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!
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Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.
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I talk out the lines as I write them.
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I don't want realism. I want magic!
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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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