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We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

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Williams, Tennessee. Orpheus Descending. Directed by Harold Clurman. Performed by Elizabeth Eustis and Jane Rose and Warren Kemmerling. 17 Mar. 1957, Martin Beck Theatre, New York City, New York, USA, act 2, sc. 1.

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Williams, Tennessee. "Orpheus Descending." Orpheus Descending and Suddenly Last Summer. New Directions, 2012, act 2, sc. 1.

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The desire to create is one of the strongest urges a human spirit can contain. It will always break through.

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Williams, Tennessee. "Tennessee Williams: Past and Present." Interviewed by Charles Ruas and Bill Lentch, WBAI-FM New York, 12 Dec. 1975.

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Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out and death's the other.

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Williams, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Directed by Elia Kazan. Performed by Barbara Bel Geddes and Burl Ives and Ben Gazzara. 24 Mar. 1955, Morosco Theatre, New York City, New York, USA, act 2.

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