"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
"You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath"
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Source: Tennessee Williams (1990). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.140, New Directions Publishing
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