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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
I think that moral earnestness is a good thing for any times, but particularly for these times.
Program notes for a Pasadena Playhouse production of Stairs to the Roof (1947)
We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!
Orpheus Descending (1957)
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
The Night of the Iguana (1963)
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
The Rose Tattoo (1951)
Eternity!—Didn't it give you the cold shivers?
Summer and Smoke (1948)
People go to the movies instead of moving!
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
I am widely regarded as the ghost of a writer (1977)
I never saw a more beautiful woman, enormous eyes, skin the color of Devonshire cream.
Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Every time you come in yelling that God damn "Rise and Shine!" "Rise and Shine!" I say to myself, "How lucky dead people are!"
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Camino Real (1953)
All the western theologies are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
Mother, when you're disappointed, you get that awful suffering look on your face, like the picture of Jesus' mother in the museum!
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Things have a way of turning out so badly.
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
I'm tired of the movies and I am about to move!
The Glass Menagerie (1944)