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
food drinking believe
A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.
believe long silence
I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
believe taken hero
I don't believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
believe good-luck luck
Luck is believing you're lucky.
believe desperate truth-is
No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.
believe self doubt
I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.
hate believe taken
I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents. This is so simple I'm ashamed to say it, but I'm sure it's true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that's why I don't understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
believe writing play
I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
life-lesson believe memorial
Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
believe artist may
An artist must believe in himself. Your belief is contagious. Others may say he is vain, but they are affected.
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!
longest time
Time is the longest distance between two places.
depended kindness
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
asked dreamers good harmless love loved needs remember revolution revolutions-and-revolutionaries
You said, ''They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.'' -- ''What,'' I asked you, ''is harmless about a dreamer, and what,'' I asked you, ''is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.''