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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Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going.
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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!
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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.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
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Time is the longest distance between two places.
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Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics.
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Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.