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
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states...
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion.
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we're doing, if we're selling it, if the listener likes us. 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 don't think a married couple can go through life without laughs together any more than they can without tears.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it in a way that will be understandable to anyone who is not a neurotic.
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Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
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Well, honey, a shot never does a coke any harm!
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Young, gifted, and destitute...
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All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.