“Mother, when you're disappointed, you get that awful suffering look on your face, like the picture of Jesus' mother in the museum!”

— Tennessee Williams , The Glass Menagerie

Laura, Scene Two
The Glass Menagerie (1944)

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American playwright 1911–1983

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