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 corruption which I have involuntarily chosen as the basic, allegorical theme of my plays as a whole. ✨ Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). New Selected Essays: Where I Live, p.84, New Directions Publishing
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- Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair? ✨ Tennessee Williams (1975). Memoirs, p.33, New Directions Publishing
- Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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