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
block writing artist
And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
baby being-in-love lap
Stella: And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby.. [she smiles to herself] Blanche: I guess that is what is meant by being in love..
hawthorne bunch reverence
Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
way apologizing our-family
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families
thinking numbers telephones
You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they [these tablets] are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!
dark men seems
But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.
time understanding enemy
I don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.
young gifted destitute
Young, gifted, and destitute...
honey coke doe
Well, honey, a shot never does a coke any harm!
memorable character long
But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.
destiny way menagerie
Things have a way of turning out so badly.
thinking sorrow sincerity
Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.
dog loss terrible
It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.
cat tin hot
Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof...