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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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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Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?
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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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