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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
Novelist
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II
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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
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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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Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
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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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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!
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Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.
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I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.
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I'm tired and it's taking an increasing amount out of me, more than I have to give physically. And that's why I want to move to Sicily and buy that little farm and raise a flock of goats and geese. I find it peaceful ... and it would be a nice way to end life.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
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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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