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Mendacity is a system that we live in, " declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.Tennessee Williams
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Laws of silence don’t work…. When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don’t work, it’s just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.Tennessee Williams
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A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believingTennessee Williams
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Laws of silence don't work.... When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant....Tennessee Williams
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I know! WHY! — Am I so catty? — Cause I’m consumed with envy an’ eaten up with longing? —Tennessee Williams
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The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think the reason he buys everything he can buy is that in the back of his mind he has the crazy hope that one of his purchases will be life everlasting! -- Which it never can be....Tennessee Williams
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When something is Festering on your memory or in your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant...Tennessee Williams
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?– I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can...Tennessee Williams