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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
Tennessee Williams
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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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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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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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Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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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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When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.
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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle.
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But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary
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To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them, or they had failed their eyes, and so they were having their fingers pressed forcibly down on the fiery Braille alphabet of a dissolving economy.
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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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How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.
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Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.
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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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Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!
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