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 WILLIAMSNot facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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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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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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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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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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