Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams
Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams IIIwas an American playwright and author of many stage classics. Along with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller he is considered among the three foremost playwrights in 20th-century American drama...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth26 March 1911
CountryUnited States of America
time distance two
For time is the longest distance between two places.
life live-by life-changing
To be free is to have achieved your life.
way cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof liquor
Liquor is one way out an’ death’s the other.
life-lesson believe memorial
Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
grieving blood want
These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us?
memorial-day freedom long
Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
life inspiring memories
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
nice ocean doctors
The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die--with my hand in the hand of some nice looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch. "Poor lady," they'll say, "The quinine did her no good. That unwashed grape has transported her soul to heaven.
artist creative age
The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment, the work it produces will inescapably reflect the disturbances, sometimes obliquely and sometimes with violent directness.
truth opposites giving
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
funny life motivational
You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
life reality grace
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
character writing desire
I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.
liars lying doors
Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.