We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped.
(The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, 1963)

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How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.

Tennessee Williams (The Glass Menagerie, 1944)

Make voyages! - Attempt them! - there's nothing else...

Tennessee Williams (Camino Real, 1953)

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Tennessee Williams (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1955)

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