"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
"William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. "In the time of your life--live!" That time is short and it doesn't return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition."
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Source: Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.105, New Directions Publishing
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