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 WILLIAMSVanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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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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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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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 can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
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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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Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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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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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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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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