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
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.
dies
To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
life want cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof
I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?
giving-up world resistance
Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
beautiful letting-go giving-up
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you--gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there?
games people sick
Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won or lost, and now that you've lost the game, not lost but just quit playing, you have that rare sort of charm that usually only happens in very old or hopelessly sick people, the charm of the defeated.
death animal giving
The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.