1914-1983, American Dramatist
Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
Tennessee Williams – [Time and Time Management]


We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
Tennessee Williams – [Crisis]


We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
Tennessee Williams – [Loneliness]


We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
Tennessee Williams – [Suspicion]


We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee Williams – [Humankind]


We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!
Tennessee Williams – [Isolation]


When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Tennessee Williams – [Loneliness]


You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
Tennessee Williams – [Money]


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.''
Tennessee Williams – [Revolutions and Revolutionaries]


You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got through short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with.
Tennessee Williams – [Women]

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