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 WILLIAMSVanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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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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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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What 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?
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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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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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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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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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