The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

—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

Don Quixote is the true American.… You do not have to look in many American eyes to suddenly meet somewhere the beautiful grave lunacy of his gaze.

—Tennessee Williams

To be free is to have achieved your life.

—Tennessee Williams

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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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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

—Tennessee Williams

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

—Tennessee Williams

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How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants, its creeping, crawling, climbing creatures, the croaking things with wings that hang on rocks and soar through the fog, the furry grass, the scaly seas.

—Edward Abbey

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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

—B. C. Forbes

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God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

—Arthur Young

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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

—William Cowper

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Use plants to bring life.

—Douglas Wilson

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