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 WILLIAMSI can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with 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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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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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
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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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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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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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