"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
"I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion."
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Source: Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.94, New Directions Publishing
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