Quotes From "Sweet Bird Of Youth" By Tennessee Williams

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I’ve been accused of having a death wish but I think it’s life that I wish for, terribly, shamelessly, on any terms whatsoever. Tennessee Williams
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Chance, you've gone past something you couldn't afford to go past; your time, your youth, you've passed it. It's all you had and you've had it. Tennessee Williams
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I don't ask for your pity, but just for your understanding — not even that — no. Just for some recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all. Tennessee Williams
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Of course, you were crowned with laurel in the beginning, your gold hair was wreathed with laurel, but the gold is thinning and the laurel has withered. Face it — pitiful monster. Tennessee Williams
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I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding. Tennessee Williams
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Princess, the great difference between people in this world is not between the rich and the poor or the good and the evil, the biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have the pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched it with envy, sick envy. The spectators and the performers. Tennessee Williams