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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
Tennessee Williams
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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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Like a cat on a hot tin roof.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
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Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
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