"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
"I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of."
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Source: Tennessee Williams (1959). “Sweet Bird of Youth”, p.105, New Directions Publishing
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