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Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down... So chew your food and give your salivary

Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down... So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function!

Tennessee Williams

Animal, Giving, Chance

Tennessee Williams (1996). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.4, Heinemann

And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into...

Tennessee Williams

Lying, Drunk, Together

Tennessee Williams (2004). “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, p.173, New Directions Publishing

I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place, a building...a house...of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can...well, nest.

Tennessee Williams

Mean, Home, Thinking

Tennessee Williams (2009). “The Night of the Iguana”, p.116, New Directions Publishing

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Tennessee Williams

Love, Real, Hawks

Tennessee Williams (1990). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.526, New Directions Publishing

Why, man alive, Laura! Just look about you a little. What do you see? A world full of common people! All of 'em born and all of em' going to die! Which of them has one-tenth of your good points! Or mine! Or anyone else's, as far as that goes - gosh! Everybody excels in some one thing. Some in many!

Tennessee Williams

Men, People, Looks