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
memories heart emotional
The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
goodbye blow world
For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .
love dream people
You said, 'They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
writing alive posthumous
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.
nature stuff vacuums
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
life friendship birthday
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
character play theatre
Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
inspirational courage travel
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
unforgivable cruelty dubois
Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois
drama speech natural
Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.
inspirational change graduation
The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
lonely loneliness being-alone
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
lonely loneliness selfish
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
liars lying hypocrite
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!