“The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.”

— Tennessee Williams

Quoted in "Tennessee Williams" in Profiles (1990) by Kenneth Tynan (first published as a magazine article in February 1956)

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American playwright 1911–1983

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