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 WILLIAMSI am more faithful than I intended to be!
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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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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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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