START: MRS VENABLE: Yes, this was Sebastian’s garden. The Latin names of the plants were printed on tags attached to them but the print’s fading out. Those ones there – [She draws a deep breath.] – are the oldest plants on earth, survivors from the age of the giant fern forests.
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END: DOCTOR: This photograph looks older.
MRS VENABLE: The photograph looks older, but not the subject. It takes character to refuse to grow old, Doctor – successfully to refuse to. It calls for discipline, abstention. One cocktail before dinner, not two, four, six – a single lean chop and lime juice on a salad in restaurants famed for rich dishes.

Tennessee Williams. Suddenly Last Summer. Penguin Modern Classics (electronic version), 2009. pp.9-20.