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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
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Thomas Lanier Williams III
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We're left alone with each other. We have to creep close to each other and give gentle little nudges with our paws and our muzzles before we can slip into sleep and rest for the next day's playtime.
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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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The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.
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Luck is believing you're lucky.
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Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.
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Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!
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I don't want realism. I want magic!
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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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What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to totally arbitrary killing on stage, or pointless gunfire, at least it'll catch their attention and keep them awake. Just keep the thing going any way you can.
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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.
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If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.
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Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
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Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.
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My '60s plays were as good as most of the other plays I've written ... except I wasn't in a condition to refine them, to help in the rehearsal, or do anything. I was hardly conscious of what was going on except during the hours of the day when I was actually writing ... and that was with the aid of speed.
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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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