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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It's like nothing else. It's like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn't end in marriage. It's all courtship.
Tennessee Williams
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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
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Thomas Lanier Williams III
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For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .
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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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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.
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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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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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