Tennessee Williams cytaty (153 cytatów, strona 3)

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.)

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

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

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Tennessee Williams: Cytaty po angielsku

“They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!”

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Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Źródło: A Streetcar Named Desire

“We've had this date with each other from the beginning.”

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Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Źródło: A Streetcar Named Desire

“Val: Why do you go out there?
Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice.
Val: What advice do they give?
Sandra: Just one word- live!”

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Źródło: Battle of Angels

“She lives in a world of her own – a world of – little glass ornaments…”

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Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Źródło: The Glass Menagerie

“Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart…”

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Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Źródło: A Streetcar Named Desire

“But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.”

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“The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.”

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Tennessee Williams Suddenly Last Summer

Źródło: Suddenly Last Summer

“Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.”

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Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Źródło: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“attempting to find in motion what was lost in space.”

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Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Źródło: The Glass Menagerie

“When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.”

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“I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth.
- Blanche Scene II”

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Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Źródło: A Streetcar Named Desire

“It's like a switch, clickin' off in my head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on, and all of a sudden there's peace.”

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Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Źródło: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth.”

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Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Źródło: A Streetcar Named Desire

“The name of a person you love is more than language.”

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“The trouble with this world is that everybody has to compromise and conform.”

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“Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!”

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Tennessee Williams Suddenly Last Summer

Źródło: Suddenly Last Summer

“Stanley:
Delicate piece she is.
Stella:
She is. She was. You didn't know Blanche as a girl. Nobody, nobody, was tender and trusting as she was. But people like you abused her, and forced her to change.”

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Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Źródło: A Streetcar Named Desire

“My only point, the only point that I'm making, is life has got to be allowed to continue even after theof life is--all--over….”

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Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Źródło: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal.”

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“There is only one true aristocracy… and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!”

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“But here there was only hot swing music and liquor, dance halls, ban, and movies, and sex that hung in the gloom like a chandelier and flooded the world with brief, deceptive rainbows.”

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Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Źródło: The Glass Menagerie

“The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.”

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Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Źródło: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.”

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Quoted in "Tennessee Williams" in Profiles (1990) by Kenneth Tynan (first published as a magazine article in February 1956)

“Stella:
And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby..
[she smiles to herself]
Blanche:
I guess that is what is meant by being in love..”

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Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Źródło: A Streetcar Named Desire

“Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else.”

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Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Wariant: Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
Źródło: The Glass Menagerie

“I'll be all right in a minute, I'm just bewildered - by life…”

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Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Źródło: The Glass Menagerie

“I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together”

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Tennessee Williams

Źródło: Collected Stories

“Possess your soul in patience - you will see!”

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Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Źródło: The Glass Menagerie