“Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.”

—  Tennessee Williams , The Rose Tattoo

The Timeless World of Play http://books.google.com/books?id=Rp3TJUCT9soC&q=%22Snatching+the+eternal+out+of+the+desperately+fleeting+is+the+great+magic+trick+of+human+existence%22&pg=PA6#v=onepage, an introductory essay to The Rose Tattoo (1951)

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American playwright 1911–1983

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