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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
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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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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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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I know all about the tyranny of women.
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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--gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there?
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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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Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart
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But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary
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The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.
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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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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Young, gifted, and destitute.
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