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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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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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I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Val: Why do you go out there? Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice. Val: What advice do they give? Sandra: Just one word- live!
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
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You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath
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Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.
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Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.
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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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The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.
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Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
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How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.
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People go to the movies instead of moving.
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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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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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-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table.
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I don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.
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