The Glass Menagerie Quotes

“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

topic:work adventure

“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

topic:work

“In memory everything seems to happen to music.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:memory music

“Some people say that science clears up all the mysteries for us. In my opinion it only creates more!”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:science mystery

“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

topic:light

“Possess your soul in patience — you will see!”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:soul patience

“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

topic:suffering poetry

“You live in a dream; you manufacture illusions!”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:dream

“Go to the moon — you selfish dreamer!”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:dream

“It’s no tragedy, Freckles. Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:care

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