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 WILLIAMSCaged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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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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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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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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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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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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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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