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
longest time
Time is the longest distance between two places.
believe long silence
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.
memorable character long
But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for.
sweet regret long
Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair?
writing play long
I don't have an audience in mind when I write. I'm writing mainly for myself. After a long devotion to playwriting I have a good inner ear. I know pretty well how a thing is going to sound on the stage, and how it will play. I write to satisfy this inner ear and its perceptions. That's the audience I write for.
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...
punishment long done
How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven't I done time enough, haven't I served my term? can't I apply for a-pardon?
new-orleans hands long
Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it?
memorial-day freedom long
Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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.