"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
"Make this decision today. Will you be a good and honest writer, or would you rather be famous, loved, noticed? Tell me, because there are different paths for these two divergent goals. The decision to be a true artist is lonelier and slower, but it will lead to better work and, I think, a better life. Very rarely you will be a good and honest writer and also know a little comfort and some attention and the well wishes of a crowd. This is very rare."
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Source: Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.104, New Directions Publishing
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