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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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Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
Novelist
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Columbus
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Thomas Lanier Williams III
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The helpless can't help the helpless.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
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No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.
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How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.
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The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.
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For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with clockwork. Better to keep your elevation unseen until it is higher than strangers' hands can reach to pull you down to their level.
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Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.
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Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
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I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays. Poetry’s poetry. It doesn’t have to be called a poem, you know.
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Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart
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