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 WILLIAMSCaged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
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Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. –Blanche Dubois
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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The name of a person you love is more than language.
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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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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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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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Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.
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