Tennessee Williams - Human Quotes

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I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.

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Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down… So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function!

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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.

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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

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

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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

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In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

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