“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
Source: Conversations with Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams: 139 citations0 J'aime
Tennessee Williams: Citations en anglais
“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tennessee Williams The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
Source: The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
“A Prayer for the Wild at Heart That Are Kept in Cages”
Tennessee Williams Stairs to the Roof
This is the subtitle of the play
Source: Stairs to the Roof (1941)
“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire
Source: A Streetcar Named Desire
“How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Source: The Glass Menagerie
“In memory everything seems to happen to music.”
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Tom (As Narrator Scene One)
Source: The Glass Menagerie (1944)
“All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.”
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Amanda, Scene Six
Source: The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire
Source: A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire
Source: A Streetcar Named Desire
“People go to the movies instead of moving!”
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Tom, Scene Six
Source: The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Contexte: Yes, movies! Look at them — All of those glamorous people — having adventures — hogging it all, gobbling the whole thing up! You know what happens? People go to the movies instead of moving! Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them! Yes, until there's a war. That's when adventure becomes available to the masses! Everyone's dish, not only Gable's! Then the people in the dark room come out of the dark room to have some adventures themselves — Goody, goody! — It's our turn now, to go to the south Sea Island — to make a safari — to be exotic, far-off! — But I'm not patient. I don't want to wait till then. I'm tired of the movies and I am about to move!
Tennessee Williams Orpheus Descending
Source: "The Past, the Present and the Perhaps," http://books.google.com/books?id=mTRaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22The+future+is+called+perhaps+which+is+the+only+possible+thing+to+call+the+future+And+the+important+thing+is+not+to+allow+that+to+scare+you%22&pg=PA7#v=onepage introduction to Orpheus Descending (1957)
“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”
Tennessee Williams Camino Real
Don Quixote in Prologue
Variante: When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Source: Camino Real (1953)
“All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.”
Tennessee Williams The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963)
Tennessee Williams The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
Christopher
Source: The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963)
“I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.”
Tennessee Williams Sweet Bird of Youth
Source: Sweet Bird of Youth
“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.”
Tennessee Williams Camino Real
Source: Camino Real
“We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.”
Tennessee Williams Orpheus Descending
Val ( Act 2, Scene 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=oOhF2S_tsIoC&q=%22We're+all+of+us+sentenced+to+solitary+confinement+inside+our+own+skins+for+life%22&pg=PA33#v=onepage) <br class="br">Orpheus Descending (1957)
Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays
