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Tennessee Williams
© Nancy Crampton
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

The Art of Theater No. 5
Interviewed by Dotson Rader
Issue 81, Fall 1981
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ON BEING SINGLE

I think it made it possible for me to practice my profession as a writer. You know what happened to poor Norman Mailer. One wife after another, and all that alimony. I've been spared all that. I give people money, yes. But I couldn't have afforded alimony, not to all those wives. I would've had to behead them! Being single made it possible for me to work.
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