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Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright. Along with Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.

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All good art is an indiscretion.

Art, Art Is, Good, Good Art, Indiscretion

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

Apologizing, Families, Our Family, Way

attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.

Attempting, Lost, Menagerie, Space

All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.

Expect, Funny, Girl, Hilarious, Men, Trap

Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.

Being Disappointed, Disappointed, Discouraged, Menagerie, Thing

Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!

Bunch, Hawthorne, Misfortune, Reverence, Romeos, Whitman

The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.

Backwards, Funny, Paper, Read, Way, World

I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.

Bats, Detected, High, Littles, Voice

You said, 'They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people. ' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

Asked, Dream, Dreamer, Love, People, Remember

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

Confidence, Fake People, Wine, Noon, Appear

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew. . . Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.

Cat, Long, Staying, Victory, Wish

Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.

Fire, Facing

The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.

Cruelty, Deliberate, Sin, Unforgivable Sin

An artist must believe in himself. Your belief is contagious. Others may say he is vain, but they are affected.

Affected, Artist, Believe, Contagious, May

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

Hell, Nature, Replaces, Stuff, Vacuums

It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.

Enough, Say, Theatre, Trying, Write, Writing

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

God, Humanity, Meaningful, Progress, Work

All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.

Creative, Creative Work, Creativity, Cri, Sense, Work

It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.

Arrest, Art, Depth, Perhaps, Play, Taken

When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse. The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin' orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.

Father, Look, Looks, Manhood, Orchids, Ways

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