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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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The helpless can't help the helpless.
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Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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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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Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.
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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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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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Security is a kind of death.
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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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My '60s plays were as good as most of the other plays I've written ... except I wasn't in a condition to refine them, to help in the rehearsal, or do anything. I was hardly conscious of what was going on except during the hours of the day when I was actually writing ... and that was with the aid of speed.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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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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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!
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-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table.
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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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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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