Tennessee Williams słynne cytaty
„Modlitwa za dzikich w sercu, trzymanych w klatce.”
A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages. (ang.)
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. )
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?”
Źródło: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Źródło: The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
“A Prayer for the Wild at Heart That Are Kept in Cages”
This is the subtitle of the play
Źródło: Stairs to the Roof (1941)
“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
Źródło: A Streetcar Named Desire
“How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”
Źródło: The Glass Menagerie
“In memory everything seems to happen to music.”
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.”
Amanda, Scene Six
Źródło: The Glass Menagerie (1944)
“People go to the movies instead of moving!”
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!
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)
Źródło: Collected Stories
“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”
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.”
The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963)
Christopher
Źródło: 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.”
Źródło: Sweet Bird of Youth
“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.”
Źródło: Camino Real
“We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.”
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)
Źródło: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays