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 WILLIAMSNothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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