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I never saw a more beautiful woman, enormous eyes, skin the color of Devonshire cream.

— Tennessee Williams

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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)

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There is a Lady sweet and kind,
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

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