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There's no better credit card in the world than driving up at a bank door in a Cadillac limousine.

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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
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Thomas Lanier Williams III
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The helpless can't help the helpless.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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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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Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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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’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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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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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?
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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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But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary
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A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
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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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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
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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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How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.
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