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Every time you come in yelling that God damn "Rise and Shine!" "Rise and Shine!" I say to myself, "How lucky dead people are!"

— Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie (1944)

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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.

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