Quotes by Tennessee Williams

About Tennessee Williams:

Thomas Lanier is considered among the three foremost playwrights in 20th century American drama.
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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Tennessee Williams

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

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The future is called 'perhaps', which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

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To be free is to have achieved your life.

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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

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Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

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Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?

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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

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A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

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Luck is believing you're lucky.

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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

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Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

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Author Bio

  • NameTennessee Williams
  • DescriptionAmerican playwright
  • AliasesThomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III; Thomas Lanier Williams III
  • BornMarch 26, 1911
  • DiedFebruary 25, 1983
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPlaywright; Novelist; Screenwriter; Writer
  • AwardsPulitzer Prize For Drama