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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.

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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
Thomas Williams
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Quick
Dance
Youth
Must
Wick
Wanton

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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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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 prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.
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Like a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath
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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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Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let's face it.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.
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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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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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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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