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Men 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.
- Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability…
- Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.
- Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!
- Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
- But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary
- A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.
- If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
- 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…
- You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and…
- All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.
- But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.
- Q.Do you have any positive message, in your opinion? A.Indeed I do think that I do. Q.Such as what? A.The crying, almost screaming, need of…
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