A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

—Tennessee Williams

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About Tennessee Williams

Portrait of Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) 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.

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Make voyages! - Attempt them! - there's nothing else...

—Tennessee Williams

Back of the sun and way deep under our feet, at the earth's center, are not a couple of noble mysteries but a couple of joke books.

—Tennessee Williams

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

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

—Tennessee Williams

It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.

—Tennessee Williams

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Many things that human words have upset are set at rest again by the silence of animals. Animals move through the world like a caravan of silence. A whole world, that of nature and that of animals, is filled with silence. Nature and animals seem like protuberances of silence. The silence of animals and the silence of nature would not be so great and noble if it were merely a failure of language to materialize. Silence has been entrusted to the animals and to nature as something created for its own sake.

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The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.

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There are mystical, unbreakable bonds between all members of the natural world including humans and animals. Whether or not we remember or acknowledge this relatedness, it still exists.

—Elizabeth S. Eiler

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There is not one world for man and one for animals; they are part of the same one and lead parallel lives.

—Rigoberta Menchú

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I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.

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