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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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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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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
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Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home to eat pone, sip mint juleps, and flog the field hands. This more than anything cultivated my life-long aversion to bicycles.
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Mendacity is a system that we live in, declares Brick. Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.
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Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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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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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
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Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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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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Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.
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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
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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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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.
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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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