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For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.
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
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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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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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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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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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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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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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Like a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!
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Don't you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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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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When I write I don't aim to shock people, and I'm surprised when I do. But I don't think that anything that occurs in life should be omitted from art, though the artist should present it in a fashion that is artistic and not ugly. I set out to tell the truth. And sometimes the truth is shocking.
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Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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