Tennessee Williams cytaty

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„Gdyby ludzie zachowywali się tak, jak zachowują się narody, to ubierano by ich w kaftany bezpieczeństwa.”

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

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

„Dzisiejsi ludzie chcieliby pojutrzejsze życie kupić za przedwczorajszą cenę.”

„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.”

„Kobieta potrafi pokochać mężczyznę tylko po to, aby nie zezwolić na to innej.”

„My wszyscy korzystamy z siebie wzajemnie i nazywamy to miłością, a kiedy nie możemy posłużyć się sobą, nazywamy to nienawiścią.”

„Nie powinniśmy ufać sobie wzajemnie. To nasza jedyna obrona przed zdradą.”

„Rzeczywistość dzisiejsza jest bystrym strumieniem, w którym roi się od ludzi nie umiejących pływać.”

„Im więcej ma się pieniędzy, tym więcej poznaje się ludzi, z którymi nic nas nie łączy prócz pieniędzy.”

„To, co jest zdrowe, jest najczęściej nudne, a to co jest nudne, jest najczęściej zdrowe.”

„Dlaczego nie możemy byś szczęśliwi teraz, przecież jutro możemy już nie żyć…”

“Young, gifted, and destitute…”

“When I was sixteen, I made the discovery -- love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me.”

“No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.”

“How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven't I done time enough, haven't I served my term? can't I apply for a-pardon?”

“It's interesting, isn't it?… the chandelier… it reminds me of mushroom soup.”

“A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing”

“I want to infect you with the tremendous excitement of living, because I believe that you have the strength to bear it.”

“I'll just imagine he had an operation. The horn was removed to make him feel less — freakish! Now he will feel more at home with the other horses, the ones that don't have horns…”

“We saw the Encantadas, but on the Encantadas we saw something Melville hadn't written about.”

“You don't know things anywhere! You live in a dream; you manufacture illusions!”

“I took that horrible novel back to the library — yes! That hideous book by that insane Mr. Lawrence. I cannot control the output of diseased minds or people who cater to them — BUT I WON'T ALLOW SUCH FILTH BROUGHT INTO MY HOUSE! No, no, no, no, no!”

“The tables have turned, yes, the tables have turned with a vengeance! You've come around to my old way of thinking and I to yours like two people exchanging a call on each other at the same time, and each one finding the other one gone out, the door locked against him and no one to answer the bell!”

“I never saw a more beautiful woman, enormous eyes, skin the color of Devonshire cream.”

“All of my gentlemen callers were sons of planters and of course I assumed that I would be married to one and raise my family on a large piece of land with plenty of servants. But man proposes — and woman accepts the proposal! — To vary that old, old saying a little bit — I married no planter! I married a man who worked for the telephone company!”

“Shakespeare probably wrote a poem on that light bill, Mrs. Wingfield.”

“I know this place. … Here it is on the chart. Look, it says here: "Continue until you come to the square of a walled town which is the end of the Camino Real and the beginning of the Camino Real. Halt there," it says, "and turn back, Traveler, for the spring of humanity has gone dry in this place…”

“I 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.”

“Well, now I've said it, my son was looking for God. I mean for a clear image of Him. He spent that whole blazing equatorial day in the crow's nest of the schooner watching that thing on the beach of the Encantadas till it was too dark to see it, and when he came back down the rigging, he said, Well, now I've seen Him!—and he meant God...”

“Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it … Success is shy — it won't come out while you're watching.”

“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.”

“Eternity!—Didn't it give you the cold shivers?”

“And the sand all alive, all alive, as the hatched sea-turtles made their dash for the sea, while the birds hovered and swooped to attack and hovered and—swooped to attack! They were diving down on the hatched sea-turtles, turning them over to expose their soft undersides, tearing the undersides open and rending and eating their flesh.”

“Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.”

“Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!”

“You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!”

“Mother, when you're disappointed, you get that awful suffering look on your face, like the picture of Jesus' mother in the museum!”

“The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!”

“The sort of life which I had previous to this popular success was one that required endurance, a life of clawing and scratching along a sheer surface and holding on tight with raw fingers to every inch of rock higher than the one caught hold of before, but it was a good life because it was the sort of life for which the human organism is created. I was not aware of how much vital energy had gone into this struggle until the struggle was removed. I was out on a level plateau with my arm still thrashing and my lungs still grabbing at air that no longer resisted. This was security at last. I sat down and looked about me and was suddenly very depressed.”