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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
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Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Like a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
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Don't you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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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A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.
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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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In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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We're left alone with each other. We have to creep close to each other and give gentle little nudges with our paws and our muzzles before we can slip into sleep and rest for the next day's playtime.
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Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.
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Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.
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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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