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Williams Tennessee

1911 - 1983 (72)

Williams Tennessee
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Quote 1

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

Quote 2

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

Quote 3

If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.

Quote 4

There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.

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“Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

Quote 6

I suppose I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

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In memory, everything seems to happen to music.

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Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for.

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I don’t want realism. I want magic!

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can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.

Quote 11

You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.

Quote 12

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Quote 13

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Quote 14

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Quote 16

Luck is believing you're lucky.

Quote 17

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.