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The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
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#10

 

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

 
#9
 

People go to the movies instead of moving.

--TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, The Glass Menagerie

 
#8
 

I'm going to opium dens! Yes, opium dens, dens of vice and criminals' hangouts, Mother. I've joined the Hogan Gang, I'm a hired assassin, I carry a tommy gun in a violin case! I run a string of cat houses in the Valley! They call me Killer, Killer Wingfield, I'm leading a double life, a simple honest warehouse worker by day, by night a dynamic czar of the underworld!

--TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, The Glass Menagerie

 
#7
 

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

 
#6
 

Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!

--TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, The Glass Menagerie

 
#5
 

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

 
#4
 

Go, then! Go to the moon, you selfish dreamer!

--TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, The Glass Menagerie

 
#3
 

All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.

--TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, The Glass Menagerie

 
#2
 

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 predominantely in the heart.

--TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, The Glass Menagerie

 
#1
 

Time is the longest distance between two places.

--TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, The Glass Menagerie

 
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