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 WILLIAMSTo be free is to have achieved your life.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
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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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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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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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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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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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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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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
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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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