Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling …

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Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles. ✨ Tennessee Williams (1999). The Glass Menagerie, p.79, New Directions Publishing
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Why, man alive, Laura! Just look about you a little. What do you see? A world full of common people! All of 'em born and all of em' going to die! Which of them has one-tenth of your good points! Or m … ▶
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Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles. ✨ Tennessee Williams (1999). The Glass Menagerie, p.79, New Directions Publishing

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