Friday, October 11, 2013

The glass menagerie

“Memory takes a lot of poetic licence. 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. The interior is therefore rather dim and poetic.” ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie 

“Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.” ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie 

“People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them.” ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie 

“But here there was only hot swing music and liquor, dance halls, ban, and movies, and sex that hung in the gloom like a chandelier and flooded the world with brief, deceptive rainbows.” ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie 

“People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has problems, not just you, but practically everybody has got some problems. You think of yourself as having the only problems, as being the only one who is disappointed. But just look around you and you will see lots of people as disappointed as you are.” ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie 

“People go to the movies instead of moving.” ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie 

“The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped, but I was pursued by something. It always came upon me unawares, taking me altogether by surprise. Perhaps it was a familiar bit of music. Perhaps it was only a piece of transparent glass.” ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie 

“You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.” ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie 

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 Williams, The Glass Menagerie 

“Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.” ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie 

“Time is the longest distance between two places.” ― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie


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