William Faulkner
Novelist, Poet, Playwright
"Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico"
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Sebastian Stan
Actor
"I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony Perkins. Just that whole era of Tennessee Williams to Elia Kazan."
Woody Allen
Director, Actor, Writer
"When I was young, I wanted to be a dramatic writer, a writer of tragedy. Nothing would've pleased me more than if I could have written like Eugene O'Neil or Tennessee Williams."
Paul Simon
Musician, Songwriter
"I've got a reason to believe we all be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee."
Carson McCullers
Novelist
"This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation? I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, 'How could you dare write that story, it's the most frightening work I have ever read.' I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it."
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"Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee."
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"I'm from around Tennessee. I ran away when I was 12 years old and I ain't never looked back."
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"I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill."
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"I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams."
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"When you think about it, what other playwrights are there besides O'Neill, Tennessee and me?"
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"Shame about how we’re gonna die here, though. I mean, seriously. An Arab and a half-Jew enter a store in Tennessee. It’s the beginning of a joke, and the punch line is “sodomy’’."
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