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 WILLIAMSAll creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
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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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician.
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Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families
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All good art is an indiscretion.
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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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That time is short and it doesn’t return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.
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Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
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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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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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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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