I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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