Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
11 quotes
"To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them, or they had failed their eyes, and so they were having their fingers pressed forcibly down on the fiery Braille alphabet of a dissolving economy."
"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."
"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."
"She lives in a world of her own – a world of – little glass ornaments…"
"The different people are not like other people, but being different is nothing to be ashamed of. Because other people are not such wonderful people. They're one hundred times one thousand. You're one times one! They walk all over the earth. You just stay here."
"I go to the movies because – I like adventure. Adventure is something I don’t have much of at work, so I go to the movies."
"When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken."
"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."
"Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter."
"He was always running or bounding, never just walking. He seemed always at the point of defeating the law of gravity."
"People go to the movies instead of moving."