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
catch except goes hardly life memory moment present quick
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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Like a Cat on a hot tin roof
cat tin hot
Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof...
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Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.
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I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
way cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof liquor
Liquor is one way out an’ death’s the other.
life want cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof
I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?
cat long victory
What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?—I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can...
inside sentenced solitary
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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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
death
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
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!
almost beneath completing creativity depends second survival
It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.