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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
Novelist
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Columbus
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Thomas Lanier Williams III
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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
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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--gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there?
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All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.
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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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attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!
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The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.
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Switch clicking off in my head, turning the hot light off and the cool night on and — [He looks up, smiling sadly.] — all of a sudden there's—peace!
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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