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

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“Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.”

Tennessee Williams The Rose Tattoo

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)

“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!”

Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

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”

Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Varianta: Time is the longest distance between two places.
Zdroj: The Glass Menagerie

“Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.”

Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Zdroj: A Streetcar Named Desire

“Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?”

Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Zdroj: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye….”

Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Tom, Scene Seven
Zdroj: The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Kontext: 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…

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