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Tennessee Williams Quotes

Tennessee Williams quotes about humanity

American Playwright March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983

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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 a great worldwide human effort to know ourselves and each other a great deal better, well enough to concede that no man has a monopoly on right or virtue any more than any man has a corner on duplicity and evil and so forth. If people, and races and nations, would start with that self-manifest truth, then I think that the world could sidestep the sort of... Tennessee Williams
The great and only possible dignity of man lies in his power deliberately to choose certain moral values by which to live as steadfastly as if he, too, like a character in a play, were immured against the corrupting rush of time. Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence. As far as we know, as far as there exists any kind of empiric evidence, there is no way to beat the beat the game of being against non-being, in which non-being is the... Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity..."
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity..."
All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for..."
The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s..."
The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others. Tennessee Williams
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among..."
In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons. Tennessee Williams

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