Tennessee Williams - Sweet Bird of Youth (1959)

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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.

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I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it in a way that will be understandable to anyone who is not a neurotic.

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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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I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.

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Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.

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I don't think a married couple can go through life without laughs together any more than they can without tears.

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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.

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All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerable position, to be a possible, if not a probable, loser of what you most want. Let's leave it like that.

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There's no better credit card in the world than driving up at a bank door in a Cadillac limousine.

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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.

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I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place, a building...a house...of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can...well, nest.

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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

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Hysteria is a natural phenomenon, the common denominator of the female nature. It's the female weapon and the test of a man is his ability to cope with it.

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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.

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Morning can always be counted on to bring us back to a more realistic level.

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At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

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I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.

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I don't ask for your pity, but just for your understanding—not even that—no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.

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