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 WILLIAMSThe Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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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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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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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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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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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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