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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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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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Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.
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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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Mendacity is a system that we live in, declares Brick. Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.
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Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!
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Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.
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I must endure & endure & still endure.
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We've had this date with each other from the beginning.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.
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A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.
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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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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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There's no better credit card in the world than driving up at a bank door in a Cadillac limousine.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights.
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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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