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Dying Quotes by Tennessee Williams
- A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.
- Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
- Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
- The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.
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- I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men. — Richard Baxter