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Security is a kind of death.
Tennessee Williams
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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
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Thomas Lanier Williams III
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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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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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My '60s plays were as good as most of the other plays I've written ... except I wasn't in a condition to refine them, to help in the rehearsal, or do anything. I was hardly conscious of what was going on except during the hours of the day when I was actually writing ... and that was with the aid of speed.
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When I write I don't aim to shock people, and I'm surprised when I do. But I don't think that anything that occurs in life should be omitted from art, though the artist should present it in a fashion that is artistic and not ugly. I set out to tell the truth. And sometimes the truth is shocking.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.
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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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?
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Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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I talk out the lines as I write them.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.
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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
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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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Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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