Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWhen I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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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 a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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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.
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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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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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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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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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