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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
Thomas Lanier Williams
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Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down... So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function!
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Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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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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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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Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.
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Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.
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Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.
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If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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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Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
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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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