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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThat time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
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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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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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