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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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Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let's face it.
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We live on two levels ... the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really?
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If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.
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Young, gifted, and destitute.
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Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.
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In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
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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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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I don't have an audience in mind when I write. I'm writing mainly for myself. After a long devotion to playwriting I have a good inner ear. I know pretty well how a thing is going to sound on the stage, and how it will play. I write to satisfy this inner ear and its perceptions. That's the audience I write for.
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Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.
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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.
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Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.
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I must endure & endure & still endure.
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I'm tired and it's taking an increasing amount out of me, more than I have to give physically. And that's why I want to move to Sicily and buy that little farm and raise a flock of goats and geese. I find it peaceful ... and it would be a nice way to end life.
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An artist must believe in himself - Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence - but passionately. Your belief is contagious. Others say - He is vain - but they are affected.
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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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