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Tennessee Williams Quotes

Tennessee Williams quotes

American Playwright March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983

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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for..."
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
But here there was only hot swing music and liquor, dance halls, ban, and movies, and sex that hung in the gloom like a chandelier and flooded the world with brief, deceptive rainbows. Tennessee Williams
Every time you come in yelling that God damn "Rise and Shine!" "Rise and Shine!" I say to myself, "How lucky dead people are! Tennessee Williams
The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistc. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart. Tennessee Williams
Why, man alive, Laura! Just look about you a little. What do you see? A world full of common people! All of 'em born and all of em' going to die! Which of them has one-tenth of your good points! Or mine! Or anyone else's, as far as that goes - gosh! Everybody excels in some one thing. Some in many! Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be..."
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. Tennessee Williams
To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them, or they had failed their eyes, and so they were having their fingers pressed forcibly down on the fiery Braille alphabet of a dissolving economy. Tennessee Williams
The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped, but I was pursued by something. It always came upon me unawares, taking me altogether by surprise. Perhaps it was a familiar bit of music. Perhaps it was only a piece of transparent glass. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "All good art is an indiscretion."
All good art is an indiscretion. Tennessee Williams
Val: Why do you go out there? Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice. Val: What advice do they give? Sandra: Just one word- live! Tennessee Williams
I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry’s poetry. It doesn’t have to be called a poem, you know. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "In memory everything seems to happen to music."
In memory everything seems to happen to music. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity..."
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams quote: "All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity..."
All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. Tennessee Williams

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