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 WILLIAMSIt 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
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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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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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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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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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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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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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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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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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