"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
"For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . ."
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Source: Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.97, New Directions Publishing
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