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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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Screenwriter
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Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
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