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

—Tennessee Williams

About Tennessee Williams

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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't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes, you'll know you're dead.

—Tennessee Williams

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

—Tennessee Williams

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

—Tennessee Williams

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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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More quotations tagged with “nature”

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

—Scott Westerfeld

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span upon this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

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