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 WILLIAMSAll cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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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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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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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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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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