Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThere is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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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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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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