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We live on two levels ... the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really?

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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
Novelist
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Screenwriter
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
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Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states.
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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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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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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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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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I know all about the tyranny of women.
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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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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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And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
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Security is a kind of death.
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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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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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When I write I don't aim to shock people, and I'm surprised when I do. But I don't think that anything that occurs in life should be omitted from art, though the artist should present it in a fashion that is artistic and not ugly. I set out to tell the truth. And sometimes the truth is shocking.
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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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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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I must endure & endure & still endure.
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The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.
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In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
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