"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
"What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can."
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Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof act 1 (1955). Ellipses in the original.
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