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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.

Tennessee Williams

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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
Novelist
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
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Security is a kind of death.
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Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
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I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II
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Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?
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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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We've had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!
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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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Val: Why do you go out there? Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice. Val: What advice do they give? Sandra: Just one word- live!
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
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Mendacity is a system that we live in, declares Brick. Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table.
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