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 WILLIAMSDon’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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 respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
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The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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