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 WILLIAMSSnatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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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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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
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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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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
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The helpless can’t help the helpless.
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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For time is the longest distance between two places.
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Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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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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