Tennessee Williams Berühmte Zitate
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Tennessee Williams Die Katze auf dem heißen Blechdach
Die Katze auf dem heißen Blechdach, 2. Akt
Original englisch: "That Europe is nothin' on earth but a great big auction, that's all it is, that bunch of old worn-out places, it's just a big fire-sale." - Big Daddy in: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Act 2
„Man kann in einem großen Land etwas anpflanzen, das wichtiger ist als Baumwolle - Toleranz!“
Tennessee Williams Die Katze auf dem heißen Blechdach
Die Katze auf dem heißen Blechdach, 2. Akt
Original englisch: "One thing you can grow on a big place more important than cotton! - is tolerance! - Big Daddy in: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Act 2
Tennessee Williams Die tätowierte Rose
Original englisch: "Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence." - 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: Zitate auf Englisch
Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire
Quelle: A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire
Quelle: A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams Die Katze auf dem heißen Blechdach
Quelle: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tennessee Williams Die Katze auf dem heißen Blechdach
Quelle: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
“A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing”
Tennessee Williams Die Katze auf dem heißen Blechdach
Quelle: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Quelle: 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
Variante: 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 Die tätowierte Rose
Rosa, Act Three, Scene Three
The Rose Tattoo (1951)
Tennessee Williams buch The Catastrophe of Success
page 15
The Catastrophe of Success (1945)
