Geburtsdatum | Sonntag, 26. März 1911 |
Geburtsort | Columbus, Mississippi, United States |
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Beschreibung | Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama. Much of Williams's most acclaimed work has been adapted for the cinema. He also wrote short stories, poetry, essays, and a volume of memoirs. In 1979, four years before his death, Williams was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. |
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
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.
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
To be free is to have achieved your life.
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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.
All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
All good art is an indiscretion.
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
