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Tennessee Williams has 231 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Security is a kind of death.
• We're left alone with each other. We have to creep close to each other and give gentle little nudges with our paws…
• 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.
• I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire…
• Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a…
• Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man…
• Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof...
• It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.
• Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.
• Things have a way of turning out so badly.
• But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed…

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