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 WILLIAMSAn artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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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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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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To be free is to have achieved your 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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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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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 doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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