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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 The Glass Menagerie
Amanda, Scene Two
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Power!
Jim, Scene Seven
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
“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)
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Jim, Scene Seven
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
for nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles Laura — and so goodbye…
Tom, Scene Seven
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
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
Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Zdroj: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Amanda, Scene Five
Zdroj: The Glass Menagerie (1944)
“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…
