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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
Novelist
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Poet
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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Like a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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Security is a kind of death.
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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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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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Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.
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Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.
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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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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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And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle.
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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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For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .
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I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place, a building...a house...of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can...well, nest.
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We live on two levels ... the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really?
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Young, gifted, and destitute.
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All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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