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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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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
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Columbus
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Thomas Lanier Williams III
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attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.
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I can find almost anything funny, thank God, so you search for the black, lacy slip that encases the corpse. You know, shift the angle. God may take away, but he often leaves you with a terrific opening line for the next adventure. I would suggest taking it. Move on change the angle look at it in a different way tomorrow.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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My '60s plays were as good as most of the other plays I've written ... except I wasn't in a condition to refine them, to help in the rehearsal, or do anything. I was hardly conscious of what was going on except during the hours of the day when I was actually writing ... and that was with the aid of speed.
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I'm tired and it's taking an increasing amount out of me, more than I have to give physically. And that's why I want to move to Sicily and buy that little farm and raise a flock of goats and geese. I find it peaceful ... and it would be a nice way to end life.
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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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And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle.
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If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
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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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Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart
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Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.
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Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.
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No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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I don't have an audience in mind when I write. I'm writing mainly for myself. After a long devotion to playwriting I have a good inner ear. I know pretty well how a thing is going to sound on the stage, and how it will play. I write to satisfy this inner ear and its perceptions. That's the audience I write for.
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Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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