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 WILLIAMSPhysical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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