Quotes from “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams
Here are some quotes I found memorable from the wonderful play, "The Glass Menagerie," by Tennessee Williams.
"Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter…" - Tom
"Adventure and change were imminent in this year. They were waiting around the corner for all these kids. Suspended in the mist over Berchtesgaden, caught in the folds of Chamberlain's umbrella. In Spain there was Guernica! But here there was only hot swing music and liquor, dance halls, bars, and movies, and sex that hung in the gloom like a chandelier and flooded the world with brief, deceptive rainbows…All the world was waiting for bombardments." - Tom
"…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!…" - Tom
"Shakespeare probably wrote a poem on that light bill, Mrs. Wingfield."- Jim
"Very considerate of them to let us get through dinner before they plunged us into everlasting darkness, wasn't it, Mr. O'Connor?" - Amanda
"Go to the moon- you selfish dreamer!"- Amanda
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