The Rose Tattoo is a Tennessee Williams play. It opened on Broadway in February 1951, and the film adaptation was released in 1955. It tells the story of an Italian-American widow in Mississippi who has allowed herself to withdraw from the world after her husband's death, and expects her daughter to do the same.
“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)
“The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!”
Tennessee Williams The Rose Tattoo
Rosa, Act Three, Scene Three
The Rose Tattoo (1951)
“Everybody is nothing until you love them.”
Tennessee Williams The Rose Tattoo
Source: The Rose Tattoo
