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Quote by Tennessee Williams
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of

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. – Tennessee Williams

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All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. – Tennessee Williams

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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. – Tennessee Williams

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Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success. – Michael Crawford

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Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success. – Rickey Henderson

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Ive had great success and Ive had catastrophic failure. Its really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think. – Peter Berg

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Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China. – Steve Forbes

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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing. – George Eliot

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