Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays
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“We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.”
Val ( Act 2, Scene 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=oOhF2S_tsIoC&q=%22We're+all+of+us+sentenced+to+solitary+confinement+inside+our+own+skins+for+life%22&pg=PA33#v=onepage)
Orpheus Descending (1957)
“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.”
Source: Camino Real
“I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.”
Source: Sweet Bird of Youth
Christopher
Source: The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963)
“All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.”
The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963)
“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”
Don Quixote in Prologue
Variant: When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Source: Camino Real (1953)
Source: "The Past, the Present and the Perhaps," http://books.google.com/books?id=mTRaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22The+future+is+called+perhaps+which+is+the+only+possible+thing+to+call+the+future+And+the+important+thing+is+not+to+allow+that+to+scare+you%22&pg=PA7#v=onepage introduction to Orpheus Descending (1957)
“People go to the movies instead of moving!”
Tom, Scene Six
Source: The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Context: Yes, movies! Look at them — All of those glamorous people — having adventures — hogging it all, gobbling the whole thing up! You know what happens? People go to the movies instead of moving! Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them! Yes, until there's a war. That's when adventure becomes available to the masses! Everyone's dish, not only Gable's! Then the people in the dark room come out of the dark room to have some adventures themselves — Goody, goody! — It's our turn now, to go to the south Sea Island — to make a safari — to be exotic, far-off! — But I'm not patient. I don't want to wait till then. I'm tired of the movies and I am about to move!
“All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.”
Amanda, Scene Six
Source: The Glass Menagerie (1944)