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
fire house looks
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
strong character hysteria
I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
struggle mean salvation
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
regret past men
You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.
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.
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.
brother husband humility
I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South barely tolerated spinsters living upon the grudging patronage of sister's husband or brother's wife! stuck away in some little mouse-trap of a room encouraged by one in-law to visit another little birdlike women without any nest eating the crust of humility all their life! Is that the future that we've mapped out for ourselves?
venus goddess devouring
The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
dies
To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
liars lying doors
Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with!
faithful
I am more faithful than I intended to be!
new-york cities san-francisco
America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
angel might demon
Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.