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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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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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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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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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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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
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