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
men hands want
Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
men thinking spirit
But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary
men people looks
Why, man alive, Laura! Just look about you a little. What do you see? A world full of common people! All of 'em born and all of em' going to die! Which of them has one-tenth of your good points! Or mine! Or anyone else's, as far as that goes - gosh! Everybody excels in some one thing. Some in many!
men play hunters
Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!
moving people menagerie
People go to the movies instead of moving.
men thinking self
Q.Do you have any positive message, in your opinion? A.Indeed I do think that I do. Q.Such as what? A.The crying, almost screaming, need of a great worldwide human effort to know ourselves and each other a great deal better, well enough to concede that no man has a monopoly on right or virtue any more than any man has a corner on duplicity and evil and so forth. If people, and races and nations, would start with that self-manifest truth, then I think that the world could sidestep the sort of corruption which I have involuntarily chosen as the basic, allegorical theme of my plays as a whole.
dark men seems
But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.
destiny way menagerie
Things have a way of turning out so badly.
death blow men
A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.
discouraged menagerie being-disappointed
Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
men play ideas
The process by which the idea for a play comes to me has always been something I really couldn't pinpoint. A play just seems to materialize; like an apparition, it gets clearer and clearer and clearer. It's very vague at first, as in the case of Streetcar, which came after Menagerie. I simply had the vision of a woman in her late youth. She was sitting in a chair all alone by a window with the moonlight streaming in on her desolate face, and she'd been stood up by the man she planned to marry.
music memories menagerie
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
regret past men
You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.
teaching writing men
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.