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
catch except goes hardly life memory moment present quick
Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going.
half insincere lots says sincere sincerity
Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!
cope division failure lady ought short women worry
You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got through short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with.
redemption hell feels
Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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.
unforgivable cruelty dubois
Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois
tyranny knows
I know all about the tyranny of women.
cages cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof maggie
I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
punishment long done
How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven't I done time enough, haven't I served my term? can't I apply for a-pardon?
saying-goodbye mushrooms interesting
It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.
unforgivable-sin cruelty deliberate
The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
flesh cubicles dont-change
When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.