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 WILLIAMSIf you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.
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Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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