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The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.

Bak and John Lahr (New Directions Publishing, 2009)

'I am widely regarded as the ghost of a writer,' (1977), from New Selected Essays: Where I Live, ed.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.After meeting Anna Magnani, as quoted in Tennessee Williams : Rebellious Puritan (1961) by Nancy Marie Patterson Tischler, p.I never saw a more beautiful woman, enormous eyes, skin the color of Devonshire cream.

Program notes for a Pasadena Playhouse production of Stairs to the Roof (1947).I wish I still had the idealistic passion of Benjamin Murphy! You may smile as I do at the sometimes sophomoric aspect of his excitement, but I hope you will respect, as I do, the purity of his feeling and the honest concern which he had in his heart for the basic problem of mankind, which is to dignify our lives with a certain freedom. Unskilled and awkward as I was at this initial period of my playwriting, I certainly had a moral earnestness which I cannot boast of today, and I think that moral earnestness is a good thing for any times, but particularly for these times. I see its faults very plainly, as plainly as you may see them, but still I do not feel apologetic about this play. When I look back at Stairs to the Roof.Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence. Quotes I think that moral earnestness is a good thing for any times, but particularly for these times. 1.9 The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963).

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages a prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages quote