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
patience lonely hurt
The panic disappeared under those soothing old fingers and the breathing slowed down and stopped hurting the chest as if a fox was caught in it, and then at last Mr. Kroger began to lecture the boy as he used to, Pablo, he murmured, don't ever be so afraid of being lonely that you forget to be careful. Don't forget that you will find it sometimes but other times you won't be lucky, and those are the times when you have got to be patient, since patience is what you must have when you don't have luck.
lonely loneliness being-alone
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
lonely loneliness selfish
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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.
longest time
Time is the longest distance between two places.
depended kindness
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.