Quotes by Tennessee Williams

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Thomas Lanier is considered among the three foremost playwrights in 20th century American drama.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

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If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

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I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

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Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

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Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

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The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

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Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

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The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

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Then what is good? The obsessive interest in human affairs, plus a certain amount of compassion and moral conviction, that first made the experience of living something that must be translated into pigment or music or bodily movement or poetry or pro...

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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right c...

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We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal.

Tennessee Williams

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defence against betrayal.

Tennessee Williams

When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.

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Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.

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life has got to be allowed to continue even after the dream of life is-all-over.

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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