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 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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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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I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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