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I can't guarantee that a lobotomy would stop her—babbling!!

Most people's lives—what are they but trails of debris, each day more debris, more debris, long, long trails of debris with nothing to clean it all up but, finally, death.

Tennessee Williams

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I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
This is so simple I'm ashamed to say it, but I'm sure it's true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that's why I don't understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.

Tennessee Williams

Mots clés conflict world-peace

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We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal.

Tennessee Williams

Mots clés betrayal distrust

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Memory takes a lot of poetic licence. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart. The interior is therefore rather dim and poetic.

Tennessee Williams

Mots clés past nostalgia memory

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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent

Tennessee Williams

Mots clés humor atheism funny mythology crazy-beliefs senile-delinquent western-theology

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Big Daddy: What makes you so restless, have you got ants in your britches?
Brick: Yes, sir...
Big Daddy: Why?
Brick: - Something - Hasn't - Happened...
Big Daddy: Yeah? What is that?
Brick [sadly]: - the click...
Big Daddy: Did you say the click?
Brick: Yes, click.
Big Daddy: What click?
Brick: A click that I get in my head that makes me peaceful
Big Daddy: I sure in hell don't know what you're talking about, but it disturbs me.
Brick: It's just a mechanical thing.
Big Daddy: What is a mechanical thing?
Brick: This click that I get in my head that makes me peaceful. I got to drink till I get it.

Tennessee Williams

Mots clés alcoholism

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human beings dream of life everlasting, that's the reason! But most of them want it on earth and not in heaven.

Tennessee Williams

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Big Daddy: Ignorance - of mortality - is a comfort.

Tennessee Williams

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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Tennessee Williams

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