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Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.

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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
Novelist
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Poet
Screenwriter
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
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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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Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.
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I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.
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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 live on two levels ... the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really?
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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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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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Mendacity is a system that we live in, declares Brick. Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.
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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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