Tennessee Williams - Man Quotes

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But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark — that sort of make everything else seem — unimportant.

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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

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Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.

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Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!

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You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it!

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The heart of man, his body and his brain, are forged in a white-hot furnace for the purpose of conflict. That struggle for me is creation. I cannot live without it. Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the dangers lie.

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All of my gentlemen callers were sons of planters and of course I assumed that I would be married to one and raise my family on a large piece of land with plenty of servants. But man proposes — and woman accepts the proposal! — To vary that old, old saying a little bit — I married no planter! I married a man who worked for the telephone company!

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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.

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A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.

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It haunts me, the passage of time. I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you. But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary.

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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!

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A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.

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