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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable.

--Blanche Dubois


Tennessee Williams

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TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS You said, They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people. -- What, I asked you, is harmle...
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TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to ...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS You can't cheat the public for long.
TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD