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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
Tennessee Williams
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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
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Columbus
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Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
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Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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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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I'm not in sympathy with Communism except for populations which are in a state of peasantry, actually hungry and starving. The ideal state for me is some form of Socialism, which doesn't yet exist, as far as I know, which doesn't repress the arts, or any race. Consequently I'm not a political person ... except that I'm a revolutionary.
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Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it.
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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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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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Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.
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I must endure & endure & still endure.
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I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.
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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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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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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. In the time of your life--live! That time is short and it doesn't return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its oppositi
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In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
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