Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSTalent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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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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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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