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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A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.
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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.
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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.
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Luck is believing you're lucky.
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No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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An artist must believe in himself. Your belief is contagious. Others may say he is vain, but they are affected.
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We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!
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Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics.
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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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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.