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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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Poet
Screenwriter
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.
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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 always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
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Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.
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Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families
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In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .
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I can find almost anything funny, thank God, so you search for the black, lacy slip that encases the corpse. You know, shift the angle. God may take away, but he often leaves you with a terrific opening line for the next adventure. I would suggest taking it. Move on change the angle look at it in a different way tomorrow.
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I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry’s poetry. It doesn’t have to be called a poem, you know.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights.
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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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Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.
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All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.
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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
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Luck is believing you're lucky.
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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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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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