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 WILLIAMSWhat you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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Physical 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!
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
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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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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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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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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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