Tennessee Williams:
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Tennessee Williams: Citations en anglais
“A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing”
Tennessee Williams
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Source: The Selected Letters, Vol. 1: 1920-1945
“We saw the Encantadas, but on the Encantadas we saw something Melville hadn't written about.”
Tennessee Williams
Suddenly Last Summer
Mrs. Venable, Scene One
Suddenly Last Summer (1958)
“You don't know things anywhere! You live in a dream; you manufacture illusions!”
Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie
Amanda, Scene Seven
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
“I never saw a more beautiful woman, enormous eyes, skin the color of Devonshire cream.”
After meeting Anna Magnani, as quoted in Tennessee Williams : Rebellious Puritan (1961) by Nancy Marie Patterson Tischler, p. 175
“Shakespeare probably wrote a poem on that light bill, Mrs. Wingfield.”
Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie
Jim, Scene Seven
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Tennessee Williams
Sweet Bird of Youth
Sweet Bird of Youth, Act 3 http://books.google.com/books?id=5eqagR0rbboC&q=%22I+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%22&pg=PA96#v=onepage (1959)
No known citation to Williams. Attributed in Quote Unquote (A Handbook of Quotations), 2005, MP Singh, Lotus Press.
The full quote is captured in a letter Tennessee wrote to Donald Windham and can be found on pages 57 and 58 of Tennessee WIlliams' Letters to Donald Windham. The quote is not misattributed.
Misattributed
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
Actually by the Chinese philosopher, educator and popular lecturer Dr. Tehyi Hsieh, Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs, 1948.
Misattributed
Variante: Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
“Things have a way of turning out so badly.”
Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie
Amanda, Scene Seven
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
“Eternity!—Didn't it give you the cold shivers?”
Tennessee Williams
Summer and Smoke
Alma, Prologue
Summer and Smoke (1948)
"I am widely regarded as the ghost of a writer," (1977), from New Selected Essays: Where I Live, ed. John S. Bak and John Lahr (New Directions Publishing, 2009)
“The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!”
Tennessee Williams
The Rose Tattoo
Rosa, Act Three, Scene Three
The Rose Tattoo (1951)
