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 WILLIAMSWhat is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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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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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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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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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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