"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
"And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle."
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Source: Tennessee Williams (2004). “A Streetcar Named Desire”, p.115, New Directions Publishing
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