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Thomas Lanier Williams III, dit Tennessee Williams, né le 26 mars 1911 à Columbus dans le Mississippi aux États-Unis et mort le 25 février 1983 à New York, est un dramaturge et écrivain américain dont de nombreuses œuvres furent portées au cinéma. Aux côtés d'Eugène O'Neill et Arthur Miller, il est considéré comme l'un des dramaturges les plus importants du XXe siècle aux États-Unis.

Après des années dans l'obscurité, il devient soudain populaire avec La Ménagerie de verre , qui donne à voir une famille semblable à la sienne, malheureuse et de basse condition. Cette pièce ouvre une période de succès, incluant Un tramway nommé Désir , La Chatte sur un toit brûlant et Doux oiseau de jeunesse . Les travaux de la fin de sa vie attestent d'un style nouveau qui ne plut pas au public, et sa dépendance à l'alcool et la drogue influence sa créativité. Sa pièce Un tramway nommé Désir est souvent incluse dans la liste des toutes meilleures pièces américaines du XXe siècle. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. mars 1911 – 25. février 1983
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Tennessee Williams: Citations en anglais

“They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!”

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Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Source: A Streetcar Named Desire

“We've had this date with each other from the beginning.”

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Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Source: A Streetcar Named Desire

“Val: Why do you go out there?
Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice.
Val: What advice do they give?
Sandra: Just one word- live!”

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Tennessee Williams

Source: Battle of Angels

“She lives in a world of her own – a world of – little glass ornaments…”

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Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Source: The Glass Menagerie

“Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart…”

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Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Source: A Streetcar Named Desire

“But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.”

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“The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.”

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Tennessee Williams Suddenly Last Summer

Source: Suddenly Last Summer

“Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.”

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Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.”

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“I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth.
- Blanche Scene II”

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Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Source: A Streetcar Named Desire

“It's like a switch, clickin' off in my head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on, and all of a sudden there's peace.”

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Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth.”

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Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Source: A Streetcar Named Desire

“Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!”

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Tennessee Williams Suddenly Last Summer

Source: Suddenly Last Summer

“Stanley:
Delicate piece she is.
Stella:
She is. She was. You didn't know Blanche as a girl. Nobody, nobody, was tender and trusting as she was. But people like you abused her, and forced her to change.”

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Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Source: A Streetcar Named Desire

“My only point, the only point that I'm making, is life has got to be allowed to continue even after theof life is--all--over….”

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Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“But here there was only hot swing music and liquor, dance halls, ban, and movies, and sex that hung in the gloom like a chandelier and flooded the world with brief, deceptive rainbows.”

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Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Source: The Glass Menagerie

“The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.”

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Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.”

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Quoted in "Tennessee Williams" in Profiles (1990) by Kenneth Tynan (first published as a magazine article in February 1956)

“Stella:
And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby..
[she smiles to herself]
Blanche:
I guess that is what is meant by being in love..”

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Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Source: A Streetcar Named Desire

“Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else.”

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Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Variante: Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
Source: The Glass Menagerie

“I'll be all right in a minute, I'm just bewildered - by life…”

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Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Source: The Glass Menagerie

“I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together”

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Tennessee Williams

Source: Collected Stories

“Nobody knew my rose of the world but me… I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart”

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