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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let's face it.
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
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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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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!
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If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights.
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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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I'm not in sympathy with Communism except for populations which are in a state of peasantry, actually hungry and starving. The ideal state for me is some form of Socialism, which doesn't yet exist, as far as I know, which doesn't repress the arts, or any race. Consequently I'm not a political person ... except that I'm a revolutionary.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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I don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.
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The helpless can't help the helpless.
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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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All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.
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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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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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