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Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.
Tennessee Williams
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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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All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.
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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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No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.
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For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
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I talk out the lines as I write them.
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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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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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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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We've had this date with each other from the beginning.
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-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table.
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For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.
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Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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