Tennessee Williams Quotes - Page 11

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• But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary

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  Men, Thinking, Spirit

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• Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!

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  Children, Block, Names

  Tennessee Williams (1991). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.375, New Directions Publishing

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• No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.

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  Believe, Truth Is, Desperate

  Tennessee Williams (1986). “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, p.80, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Why, man alive, Laura! Just look about you a little. What do you see? A world full of common people! All of 'em born and all of em' going to die! Which of them has one-tenth of your good points! Or mine! Or anyone else's, as far as that goes - gosh! Everybody excels in some one thing. Some in many!

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  Men, People, Looks

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• Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

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  Love, Real, Hawks

  Tennessee Williams (1990). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.526, New Directions Publishing

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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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  Animal, Giving, Chance

  Tennessee Williams (1996). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.4, Heinemann

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