But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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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.
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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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Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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