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 WILLIAMSWhen so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Your belief is contagious. Others say – He is vain – but they are affected.
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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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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
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I am more faithful than I intended to be!
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I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
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You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance.
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Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.
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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.
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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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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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I don’t want realism. I want magic!
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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
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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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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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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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