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Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!
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
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Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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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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For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.
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Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down... So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function!
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Security is a kind of death.
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People go to the movies instead of moving.
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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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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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I'm tired and it's taking an increasing amount out of me, more than I have to give physically. And that's why I want to move to Sicily and buy that little farm and raise a flock of goats and geese. I find it peaceful ... and it would be a nice way to end life.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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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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The helpless can't help the helpless.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let's face it.
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Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.
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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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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.
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Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families
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Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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