Tennessee Williams Quotes

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The powerful quote by Tennessee Williams states: “There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.” is an eloquent reminder for each of us today to not give up on ourselves and continue to strive towards being the better person within each of us.
Tennessee Williams, before he was the author who penned The Glass Menagerie, was once sickly and ill as a child growing up. A less than robust child as his father would have liked when raising him. Like his father, Tennessee developed alcoholism in his later years, his sister became institutionalized, and Tennessee struggled becoming an author by

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