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Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.

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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
Humans
Nothing
Disgusts
Unkind
Disgusting
Unless
Humanity
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