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All of us are seeking a home, and I don't mean where we were born, or where we now live and have things, but where we can do the big things, the right things. Where we belong, where we fit, where we're loved."--Tennessee Williams, "Follies of God: Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog

James Grissom
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I placed a jar in Tennessee and round it was upon a hill.

Wallace Stevens
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

Tennessee Williams
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It would be one of those evenings when lady luck showed the bitchy streak in her nature

Tennessee Williams
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Memory, of course, is unreliable, often evil, but it is the source of our identity."--Tennessee Williams

James Grissom
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.

Tennessee Williams, Conversations with Tennessee Williams
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People go to the movies instead of moving.

Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
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I was in Nashville, Tennessee last year. After the show I went to a Waffle House. I'm not proud of it, I was hungry. And I'm alone, I'm eating and I'm reading a book, right? Waitress walks over to me: 'Hey, whatcha readin' for?' Isn't that the weirdest fuckin' question you've ever heard? Not what am I reading, but what am I reading FOR? Well, goddamnit, ya stumped me! Why do I read? Well . . . hmmm...I dunno...I guess I read for a lot of reasons and the main one is so I don't end up being a fuckin' waffle waitress.

Bill Hicks
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The little town of Dayton - not far from where Katz and I now sat, as it happened - was the scene of the famous Scopes trial in 1925, when the state prosecuted a schoolteacher named John Thomas Scopes for rashly promulgating Darwinian hogwash. As nearly everyone knows, Clarence Darrow, for the defense, roundly humiliated William Jennings Bryan, for the prosecution, but what most people don't realize is that Darrow lost the case. Scopes was convicted, and the law wasn't overturned in Tennessee until 1967. And now the state was about to bring the law back, proving conclusively that the danger for Tennesseans isn't so much that they may be descended from apes as overtaken by them.

Bill Bryson
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable.--Blanche Dubois

Tennessee Williams, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire
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