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The Glass Menagerie quotes

Tennessee Williams

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“I didn’t go to the moon, I went much further — for time is the longest distance between two places.” 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
“Possess your soul in patience — you will see!” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“A fragile, unearthly prettiness has come out in Laura: she is like a piece of translucent glass touched by light, given a momentary radiance, not actual, not lasting.” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“Shakespeare probably wrote a poem on that light bill, Mrs. Wingfield.” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“He was always running or bounding, never just walking. He seemed always at the point of defeating the law of gravity.” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“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.” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“It’s no tragedy, Freckles. Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“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
“She lives in a world of her own — a world of little glass ornaments, Mother...” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recours to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“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.” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“You live in a dream; you manufacture illusions!” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“Go to the moon — you selfish dreamer!” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“In memory everything seems to happen to music.” 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
“Full steam — Knowledge — Zzzzzp! Money — Zzzzzzp! — Power! That’s the cycle democracy is built on!” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth, for all of these huge buildings are always burning with the slow and implacable fires of human desperation.” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“Some people say that science clears up all the mysteries for us. In my opinion it only creates more!” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

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