"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
"I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect."
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Source: Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi
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