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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
Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire
Zdroj: A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire
Zdroj: A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Zdroj: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Zdroj: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
“A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing”
Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Zdroj: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Zdroj: The Selected Letters, Vol. 1: 1920-1945
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Laura, Scene Seven
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
“We saw the Encantadas, but on the Encantadas we saw something Melville hadn't written about.”
Tennessee Williams Suddenly Last Summer
Mrs. Venable, Scene One
Suddenly Last Summer (1958)
“You don't know things anywhere! You live in a dream; you manufacture illusions!”
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Amanda, Scene Seven
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Amanda, Scene Three
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Tennessee Williams Summer and Smoke
Alma, Scene Eleven
Summer and Smoke (1948)
“I never saw a more beautiful woman, enormous eyes, skin the color of Devonshire cream.”
After meeting Anna Magnani, as quoted in Tennessee Williams : Rebellious Puritan (1961) by Nancy Marie Patterson Tischler, p. 175
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Amanda, Scene Six
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
“Shakespeare probably wrote a poem on that light bill, Mrs. Wingfield.”
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Jim, Scene Seven
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Tennessee Williams Camino Real
Sancho
Camino Real (1953)
Tennessee Williams Sweet Bird of Youth
Sweet Bird of Youth, Act 3 http://books.google.com/books?id=5eqagR0rbboC&q=%22I+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%22&pg=PA96#v=onepage (1959)
Tennessee Williams Suddenly Last Summer
Mrs. Venable, Scene One
Suddenly Last Summer (1958)
No known citation to Williams. Attributed in Quote Unquote (A Handbook of Quotations), 2005, MP Singh, Lotus Press.
The full quote is captured in a letter Tennessee wrote to Donald Windham and can be found on pages 57 and 58 of Tennessee WIlliams' Letters to Donald Windham. The quote is not misattributed.
Misattributed
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
Actually by the Chinese philosopher, educator and popular lecturer Dr. Tehyi Hsieh, Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs, 1948.
Misattributed
Varianta: 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.”
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Amanda, Scene Seven
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
“Eternity!—Didn't it give you the cold shivers?”
Tennessee Williams Summer and Smoke
Alma, Prologue
Summer and Smoke (1948)
Tennessee Williams Suddenly Last Summer
Mrs. Venable, Scene One
Suddenly Last Summer (1958)
"I am widely regarded as the ghost of a writer," (1977), from New Selected Essays: Where I Live, ed. John S. Bak and John Lahr (New Directions Publishing, 2009)
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Tom, Scene Four
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Tennessee Williams Summer and Smoke
Alma, Scene Twelve
Summer and Smoke (1948)
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Laura, Scene Two
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
“The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!”
Tennessee Williams The Rose Tattoo
Rosa, Act Three, Scene Three
The Rose Tattoo (1951)
Tennessee Williams kniha The Catastrophe of Success
page 15
The Catastrophe of Success (1945)
