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
liars lying hypocrite
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
lonely loneliness being-alone
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
goodbye blow world
For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .
music memories menagerie
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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.
truth betrayal defense
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
lonely loneliness selfish
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
inspirational courage travel
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
unforgivable cruelty dubois
Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois
life friendship birthday
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
light rude naked
I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
death time dying
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
nature time flower
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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.