We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
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Tennessee Williams
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About Tennessee Williams
Thomas Lanier Williams III, 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.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Tennessee WilliamsI 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…
The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't y…
All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
For time is the longest distance between two places.
Time is the longest distance between two places.
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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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…
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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 …
To be free is to have achieved your life.
All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
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.
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…
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
All good art is an indiscretion.