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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 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 Die tätowierte Rose
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
Variante: Time is the longest distance between two places.
Quelle: 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
Quelle: A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams Die Katze auf dem heißen Blechdach
Quelle: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Amanda, Scene Five
Quelle: The Glass Menagerie (1944)
“Everybody is nothing until you love them.”
Tennessee Williams Die tätowierte Rose
Quelle: The Rose Tattoo
Tennessee Williams Orpheus Descending
Quelle: Orpheus Descending
“Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?”
Tennessee Williams Die Katze auf dem heißen Blechdach
Quelle: 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
Quelle: 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…
