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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
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Columbus
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Thomas Lanier Williams III
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Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
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We've had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.
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To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them, or they had failed their eyes, and so they were having their fingers pressed forcibly down on the fiery Braille alphabet of a dissolving economy.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let's face it.
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Young, gifted, and destitute.
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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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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
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People go to the movies instead of moving.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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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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Security is a kind of death.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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