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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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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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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, I haven't reached any peak. I hit the bottom in the '60s. When a certain actress undertook the leading role in a recent play of mine, she referred to me as that old derelict. Not to my face, but behind my back.
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Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states.
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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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