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

Tennessee Williams

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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
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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I don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families
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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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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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Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.
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Oh, I haven't reached any peak. I hit the bottom in the '60s. When a certain actress undertook the leading role in a recent play of mine, she referred to me as that old derelict. Not to my face, but behind my back.
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The helpless can't help the helpless.
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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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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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