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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
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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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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If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.
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Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart
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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
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Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!
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I'm not in sympathy with Communism except for populations which are in a state of peasantry, actually hungry and starving. The ideal state for me is some form of Socialism, which doesn't yet exist, as far as I know, which doesn't repress the arts, or any race. Consequently I'm not a political person ... except that I'm a revolutionary.
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Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.
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Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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--gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there?
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!
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Like a cat on a hot tin roof.
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How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.
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Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles.
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