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 WILLIAMSSome things are not forgiveable.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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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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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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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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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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