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Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.

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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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For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states.
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
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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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Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.
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Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.
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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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A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.
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People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has problems, not just you, but practically everybody has got some problems. You think of yourself as having the only problems, as being the only one who is disappointed. But just look around you and you will see lots of people as disappointed as you are.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
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