Tennessee Williams cytaty

Tennessee Williams, właśc. Thomas Lanier Williams III – amerykański dramaturg, prozaik i poeta. Jeden z najważniejszych dramatopisarzy XX wieku. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. Marzec 1911 – 25. Luty 1983
Tennessee Williams Fotografia
Tennessee Williams: 153   Cytaty 1   Polubienie

Tennessee Williams słynne cytaty

„Modlitwa za dzikich w sercu, trzymanych w klatce.”

A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages. (ang.)

„Kiedy godzina nie jest jedynie godziną, ale odrobiną wieczności upuszczoną w twoje ręce – i kto wie co z nią zrobić?”

When an hour isn't just an hour – but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands – and who knows what to do with it? (ang. )

„Wszyscy żyjemy w palącym się domu. Bez straży pożarnej. Bez możliwości wyjścia. Tylko z oknem na górze, z którego możemy spoglądać, jak pali się dom, wraz z nami, zamkniętymi w nim.”

We all live in a house of fire. No fire department to call. No way out. Just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down… with us trapped, locked in it. (ang.)

Tennessee Williams cytaty

Tennessee Williams: Cytaty po angielsku

“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

Źródło: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”

Tennessee Williams The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

Źródło: 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
Źródło: Stairs to the Roof (1941)

“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”

Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Źródło: A Streetcar Named Desire

“How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”

Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Źródło: The Glass Menagerie

“In memory everything seems to happen to music.”

Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Tom (As Narrator Scene One)
Źródło: 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
Źródło: The Glass Menagerie (1944)

“People go to the movies instead of moving!”

Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Tom, Scene Six
Źródło: The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Kontekst: 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!

“The 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.”

Tennessee Williams Orpheus Descending

Źródło: "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
Wariant: When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Źródło: 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)

“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)
Orpheus Descending (1957)

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