Tennessee Williams - God Quotes

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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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Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!

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You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!

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Every time you come in yelling that God damn "Rise and Shine!" "Rise and Shine!" I say to myself, "How lucky dead people are!"

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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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Well, now I've said it, my son was looking for God. I mean for a clear image of Him. He spent that whole blazing equatorial day in the crow's nest of the schooner watching that thing on the beach of the Encantadas till it was too dark to see it, and when he came back down the rigging, he said, Well, now I've seen Him!—and he meant God...

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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

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