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The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.
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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Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!
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The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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The helpless can't help the helpless.
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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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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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Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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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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Oh, I haven't reached any peak. I hit the bottom in the '60s. When a certain actress undertook the leading role in a recent play of mine, she referred to me as that old derelict. Not to my face, but behind my back.
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The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.
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Young, gifted, and destitute.
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Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families
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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.
Tennessee Williams
