Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSBlanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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