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An American writer who primarily worked in American theater writing plays. Tennessee Williams (born Thomas Lanier Williams, March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American writer who primarily worked in American theater writing plays. He also wrote short stories, novels, essays and occasional screenplays. His professional career lasted from the mid 1930s to his death in 1983; during this time he wrote many plays that have become regarded as classics of the American stage. He received many of the top theatrical awards for his works of drama, including a Tony Award for best play for The Rose Tattoo (1951) and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire (1948) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955). In 1980 he was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter.
Here are some famous quotes by Tennessee Williams.
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Security is a kind of death.
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Luck is believing you're lucky.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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Time is the longest distance between two places.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
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We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins for life.
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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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I can't stand a naked light bulb any more than I can stand a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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When I stop [working] the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm working.
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Don't look forward to the day when you stop suffering. Because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
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High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going.
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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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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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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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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 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.
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I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything anything I ever did I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.
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I have always been pushed by the negative.... The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.