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Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright. Along with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.

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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.

Bats, Detected, High, Littles, Voice

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.

Caught, Grown, Hawks, Love, Real

Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.

Easy, Hands, Interest, Men, Want

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Enthusiasm, Enthusiasm For Life, Family, Life, Reality, Thing

Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.

Cat, Hot, Tin

The name of a person you love is more than language.

Love Is, Names, Language, Love, Person, Name

Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.

Brick, Bricks, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Declares, Live, Way

The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.

Animal, Beast, Death, Give, Giving, Human

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

God, Humanity, Meaningful, Progress, Work

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.

Antecedents, Circumstances, Hate, Hero, Taken

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Being Alone, Confinement, Loneliness, Lonely, Sentenced, Skins

I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry’s poetry. It doesn’t have to be called a poem, you know.

Drama, Play, Poetrys, Short, Stories

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 to cope with it.

Female, Hysteria, Weapon, Women

I met her last summer on a moonlight boat trip.

Summer, Lasts, Boat, Moonlight, Trip

Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.

Sincerity, Sorrow, Think, Thinking

For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .

Blow, Goodbye, Laura, Lightning, World

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Dead, Funny, Humor, Know, Suffering, World Suffering

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!

Gosh, Looks, Men, People, World

Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states.

America, Door, Doors, Mexico, States

We're left alone with each other. We have to creep close to each other and give gentle little nudges with our paws and our muzzles before we can slip into sleep and rest for the next day's playtime.

Dating, Gentle, Give, Next Day, Sleep, Slip

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