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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let's face it.

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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
Novelist
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Poet
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
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People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has problems, not just you, but practically everybody has got some problems. You think of yourself as having the only problems, as being the only one who is disappointed. But just look around you and you will see lots of people as disappointed as you are.
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Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.
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I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry’s poetry. It doesn’t have to be called a poem, you know.
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Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.
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Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.
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We've had this date with each other from the beginning.
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I can find almost anything funny, thank God, so you search for the black, lacy slip that encases the corpse. You know, shift the angle. God may take away, but he often leaves you with a terrific opening line for the next adventure. I would suggest taking it. Move on change the angle look at it in a different way tomorrow.
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How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.
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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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Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!
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I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place, a building...a house...of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can...well, nest.
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A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.
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No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.
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