To be free is to have achieved your life.

—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.

More quotations from Tennessee Williams

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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Set a goal so big that if you achieved it, it would blow your mind.

—Rhonda Byrne in The Secret

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Some animals, like some men, leave a trail of glory behind them. They give their spirit to the place where they have lived, and remain forever a part of the rocks and streams and the wind and sky.

—Marguerite Henry

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You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

—A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

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Have no fear of perfection—you'll never reach it.

—Salvador Dali

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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

—Charles Kettering

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