Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier Williams (March 26, 1911 February 25, 1983) was an American playwright.
Found 17 thoughts of Tennessee Williams

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

Tennessee Williams

Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof...

Tennessee Williams

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Tennessee Williams

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

Tennessee Williams

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

Tennessee Williams

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

Tennessee Williams

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

Tennessee Williams

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Tennessee Williams

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Tennessee Williams

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.

Tennessee Williams

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Tennessee Williams

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

Tennessee Williams

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

Tennessee Williams

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

Tennessee Williams

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

Tennessee Williams