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Tennessee Williams [viljems], vlastním jménem Thomas Lanier Williams, byl významný americký dramatik, představitel psychologického dramatu.

✵ 26. březen 1911 – 25. únor 1983
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„Je čas odejít, i když není jisté, kam.“

Tennessee Williams

„Co je rovné? Čára nebo ulice může být rovná, ale lidské srdce - to ne - srdce je klikaté jako cesta, která vede přes hory.“

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„Čas neubírá z přátelství, ani odloučení.“

Tennessee Williams

„Modlitba za divoká srdce, která jsou držena v klecích.“

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Tennessee Williams citáty a výroky

„Člověk nesmí dopustit, aby se jeho život zastavil, ani tehdy, když jeho životní sen ztroskotal.“

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„Ženy milují poražené, ale podvádějí je s vítězi.“

Tennessee Williams

„Je těžké vytáhnout z básní nějaké zprávy, přesto však lidé každodenně bídně umírají z nedostatku toho, co by v básních našli.“

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„Je-li tolik osamělých, kolik se osamělých být zdá, bylo by neomluvitelně sobecké být osamělý o samotě.“

Tennessee Williams

„Hvězdy na nebi už možná neexistují, právě tak je tomu s ideály dřívějších generací.“

Tennessee Williams

„Co je vítězstvím pro kočku na rozpálený plechový střeše? - To kdybych věděla… Asi by tam vydržela co nejdýl…“

Tennessee Williams

„Vakuum je trochu lepší peklo než cokoliv z té látky, kterou je příroda nahradila.“

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Zdroj: [Barrow, John D., w:John D. Barrow, Jan Novotný, Teorie všeho, Mladá fronta, Praha, 1999, 94, 82-204-0602-6]

Tennessee Williams: Citáty anglicky

“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

Zdroj: 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

Zdroj: 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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Zdroj: 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

Zdroj: The Glass Menagerie

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

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Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Zdroj: 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

Zdroj: 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

Zdroj: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“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

Zdroj: 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

Zdroj: 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

Zdroj: A Streetcar Named Desire

“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

Zdroj: 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

Zdroj: 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

Zdroj: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“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

Zdroj: 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

Zdroj: 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

Zdroj: A Streetcar Named Desire

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

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Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Varianta: Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
Zdroj: 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

Zdroj: 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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Zdroj: Collected Stories

“Nobody knew my rose of the world but me… I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart”

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