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~ Tennessee Williams Quotes ~
« on: October 18, 2015, 01:27:28 PM »
Tennessee Williams Quotes


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.




Security is a kind of death.
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« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2015, 01:28:02 PM »
Luck is believing you're lucky.
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« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2015, 01:28:30 PM »
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2015, 01:29:03 PM »
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2015, 01:30:23 PM »
Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2015, 01:30:51 PM »
Time is the longest distance between two places.
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« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2015, 01:31:18 PM »
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
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« Reply #7 on: October 18, 2015, 01:31:48 PM »
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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« Reply #8 on: October 18, 2015, 01:32:15 PM »
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
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« Reply #9 on: October 18, 2015, 01:32:47 PM »
We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins for life.
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« Reply #10 on: October 18, 2015, 01:33:27 PM »
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
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« Reply #11 on: October 18, 2015, 01:33:58 PM »
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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« Reply #12 on: October 18, 2015, 01:34:27 PM »
When I stop [working] the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm working.
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« Reply #13 on: October 18, 2015, 01:34:54 PM »
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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« Reply #14 on: October 18, 2015, 01:35:23 PM »
High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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