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It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.

Tennessee Williams

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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
Theatre
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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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Security is a kind of death.
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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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All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.
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