The Glass Menagerie QUOTES

2 " 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. "

― Tennessee Williams , The Glass Menagerie

4 " 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

6 " 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. "

― Tennessee Williams , The Glass Menagerie

8 " Yes, movies! Look at them — All of those glamorous people — having adventures — hogging it all, gobbling the whole thing up! You know what happens? 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! Yes, until there's a war. That's when adventure becomes available to the masses! Everyone's dish, not only Gable's! Then the people in the dark room come out of the dark room to have some adventures themselves — Goody, goody! — It's our turn now, to go to the south Sea Island — to make a safari — to be exotic, far-off! — But I'm not patient. I don't want to wait till then. I'm tired of the movies and I am about to move! "

― Tennessee Williams , The Glass Menagerie

10 " 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

12 " 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

14 " How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken. "

― Tennessee Williams , The Glass Menagerie

16 " 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

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

― Tennessee Williams , The Glass Menagerie

20 " Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer! "

― Tennessee Williams , The Glass Menagerie