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 WILLIAMSAt the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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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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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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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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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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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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