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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.

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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them, or they had failed their eyes, and so they were having their fingers pressed forcibly down on the fiery Braille alphabet of a dissolving economy.
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The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.
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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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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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 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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