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 WILLIAMSAt the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
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But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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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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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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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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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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I don’t believe in “original sin.” I don’t believe in “guilt.” I don’t believe in villains or heroes – only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
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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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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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