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
heart hands devil
Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
heart rose want
Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart
heart drunk body
The human heart would never pass the drunk test.... If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn't do it.
heart mean people
We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
heart writing privacy
The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.
heart people littles
There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts...
memories heart emotional
The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
taken heart years
Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
heart writing loss
William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. "In the time of your life--live!" That time is short and it doesn't return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
heart gay lgbt-pride
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
prayer heart cages
A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
inside sentenced solitary
We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!
critics-and-criticism drama maybe york
Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics.
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.