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 respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I’m only really alive when I’m writing.
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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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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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The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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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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And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
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Guessing isn’t knowing.
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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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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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