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
“Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.”
The Timeless World of Play http://books.google.com/books?id=Rp3TJUCT9soC&q=%22Snatching+the+eternal+out+of+the+desperately+fleeting+is+the+great+magic+trick+of+human+existence%22&pg=PA6#v=onepage, an introductory essay to The Rose Tattoo (1951)
for nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles Laura — and so goodbye…
Tom, Scene Seven
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
To vary that old, old saying a little bit — I married no planter! I married a man who worked for the telephone company!
Amanda, Scene Six
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
“I didn't go to the moon, I went much further—for time is the longest distance between two places”
Wariant: Time is the longest distance between two places.
Źródło: The Glass Menagerie
“Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.”
Źródło: A Streetcar Named Desire
“Everybody is nothing until you love them.”
Źródło: The Rose Tattoo
“Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?”
Źródło: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
“For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye….”
Tom, Scene Seven
Źródło: The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Kontekst: Oh, Laura, Laura, I tried to leave you behind me, but I am more faithful than I intended to be! I reach for a cigarette, I cross the street, I run into the movies or a bar, I buy a drink, I speak to the nearest stranger — anything that can blow your candles out! — for nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles Laura — and so goodbye…