"Everybody is nothing until you love them."

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Source : Tennessee Williams, John Patrick Shanley (2010). “The Rose Tattoo”, p.44, New Directions Publishing

Tennessee Williams

“The poet Marianne Moore famously wrote of 'real toads in imaginary gardens,' and the labyrinth offers us the possibility of being real creatures in symbolic space...In such spaces as the labyrinth we cross over [between real and imaginary spaces]; we are really travelling, even if the destination is only symbolic.”
“Some of my best friends are Hindu or Buddhist or Sikh, my students as well. This is the sea in which I swim.”
“When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget that they're not people.”
“mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.”
“Like everyone is either, "I grew up with it," or "I loved it," or loved them now. And when you watch The Muppet Movie now, it is so current. It's like The Simpsons before The Simpsons. It's not as cynical as The Simpsons would be but it's self-aware and there are a billion jokes, it breaks the fourth wall every five minutes, it's astounding, it's awesome. It's very exciting to be a part of that.”
“What business would judged on the first week that it's in business?”
“It starts with being unearthed. I like that word, unearthed, because we are being unearthed.”
“We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution.”

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