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The Rose Tattoo (1951)
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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
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Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
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A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.
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It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
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Born:
March 26, 1911
Died:
February 25, 1983
(aged 71)
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