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Here is a compiled list of quotes about friends and friendship: ... – Tennessee Williams, "Memoirs" "Remember that life's most valuable antiques are dear old friends."
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.
The Kindness of Strangers, a 1985 biography of Tennessee Williams by Donald Spoto; The Kindness of Strangers: Child Abandonment in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance, a 1988 book by John Boswell; The Kindness of Strangers, a 2002 autobiography by Kate Adie; The Kindness of Strangers, a 2006 novel by Katrina Kittle
Williams began work on the play in the fall of 1959, calling it at first The Enemy of Time. [2] As Sweet Bird of Youth, the work-in-progress had a tryout production starring Tallulah Bankhead and Robert Drivas in Coral Gables, Florida, directed by George Keathley [2] at his Studio M Playhouse in 1956 [3] [4] which began before Williams' agent Audrey Wood knew he had a new play. [5]
“The best mirror is an old friend.” — George Herbert “Awards become corroded. Friends gather no dust.” — Jesse Owens “A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky ...
Though granting that Tennessee Williams is "an interesting writer and a sensitive man," and that these eleven works of fiction in the collection are "electrifying," The New York Times critic James Kelly reports: "[E]ven healthy optimism is nearly invisible in the lurid studies of perversion, madness and human decay covered…"
The story was written in 1941 while Williams was residing in New Orleans, Louisiana, and collected first in Hard Candy: A Book of Stories (1954). [5]Williams's short story “Hard Candy”, begun in 1949 and completed in 1953, is a variation on the narrative and themes presented in “The Mysteries of Joy Rio.” [6] [7]
He is the author of several books, including I Ain't Marchin Anymore, about the on-campus protests and upheaval during the 1960s, the title inspired by the earlier song by Phil Ochs of the same name, and Cry of the Heart, about his long friendship with the famed American playwright Tennessee Williams, which began in the 1950s. [3] [4] [5]