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
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.
cat long victory
What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?—I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can...
adventure kind security
Security is a kind of death.
writing broken trying
I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
suicide mirrors vanity
There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
banner bohemia discretion
Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion.
theatre weakness stage
I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
faithful
I am more faithful than I intended to be!
love-is names language
The name of a person you love is more than language.