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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
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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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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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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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Young, gifted, and destitute.
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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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Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.
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Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!
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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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Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.
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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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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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Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?
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How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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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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Like a cat on a hot tin roof.
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