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Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
Tennessee Williams
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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
Thomas Lanier Williams
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A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.
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In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
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Like a cat on a hot tin roof.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.
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It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.
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Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
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For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level.
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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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A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
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If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.
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Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.
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Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.
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