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.
half tin time-goes-by
Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.
time understanding enemy
I don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.
time thinking fire
I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.
death time dying
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
nature time flower
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
time distance two
For time is the longest distance between two places.
inside sentenced solitary
We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!
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Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics.
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Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going.
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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.
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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.