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Tenessee Williams
Born
in Columbus, Mississippi, The United States
March 26, 1911
Died
February 25, 1983
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“I don't know what to tell you. A statement is easy, and here it is: Be yourself. Try to matter. Be a good friend. Love freely, even if you are likely--almost guaranteed--to be hurt, betrayed. Do what you were created to do. You'll know what this is, because it is what you keep creeping up to, peering at, dreaming of. Do it. If you don't, you'll be punching clocks and eating time doing precisely what you shouldn't, and you'll become mean and you'll seek to punish any and all who appear the slightest bit happy, the slightest bit comfortable in their own skin, the slightest bit smart. Cruelty is a drug, as well, and it's all around us. Don't imbibe.
"Try to matter. Try to care. And never be afraid to admit that you just don't know, you just don't fucking know how you're going to make it. That's when the help--the human and the divine help--shows up." --Tennessee Williams/Interview with James Grissom/1982/”
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"Try to matter. Try to care. And never be afraid to admit that you just don't know, you just don't fucking know how you're going to make it. That's when the help--the human and the divine help--shows up." --Tennessee Williams/Interview with James Grissom/1982/”
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“Stanley
throws the screen door of the kitchen open and comes in. He is of
medium height, about five feet eight or nine, and strongly, compactly
built. Animal joy in his being is implicit in all his movements and
attitudes. Since earliest manhood the center of his life has been pleasure
with women, the giving and taking of it, not with weak indulgence,
dependently, but with the power and pride of a richly feathered male
bird among hens. Branching out from this complete and satisfying
center are all the auxiliary channels of his life, such as his heartiness
with men, his appreciation of rough humor, his love of good drink and
food and games, his car, his radio, everything that is his, that bears his
emblem of the gaudy seed-bearer. He sizes women up at a glance, with
sexual classifications, crude images flashing into his mind and
determining the way he smiles at them.”
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throws the screen door of the kitchen open and comes in. He is of
medium height, about five feet eight or nine, and strongly, compactly
built. Animal joy in his being is implicit in all his movements and
attitudes. Since earliest manhood the center of his life has been pleasure
with women, the giving and taking of it, not with weak indulgence,
dependently, but with the power and pride of a richly feathered male
bird among hens. Branching out from this complete and satisfying
center are all the auxiliary channels of his life, such as his heartiness
with men, his appreciation of rough humor, his love of good drink and
food and games, his car, his radio, everything that is his, that bears his
emblem of the gaudy seed-bearer. He sizes women up at a glance, with
sexual classifications, crude images flashing into his mind and
determining the way he smiles at them.”
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