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
running light blue
Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light....
drinking light alcohol
It's like a switch, clickin' off in my head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on, and all of a sudden there's peace.
light rude naked
I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
light elbows cigarette
Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles.
light kitchen stronger
And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle...
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.
guinea humanity laboratory pigs work
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.
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.''
blocked success
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.