People go to the movies instead of moving!
Tom, Scene Six
Quelle: The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Kontext: Yes, movies! Look at them — All of those glamorous people — having adventures — hogging it all, gobbling the whole thing up! You know what happens? People go to the movies instead of moving! Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them! Yes, until there's a war. That's when adventure becomes available to the masses! Everyone's dish, not only Gable's! Then the people in the dark room come out of the dark room to have some adventures themselves — Goody, goody! — It's our turn now, to go to the south Sea Island — to make a safari — to be exotic, far-off! — But I'm not patient. I don't want to wait till then. I'm tired of the movies and I am about to move!
„Geh deinen Weg und lass die Leute reden!“
Einbahnstraße, KURZWAREN, S. 71
Einbahnstraße (1928)
„So wie sie meine Leute im Süden behandeln, kann die Regierung zur Hölle gehen.“
„Die Leute gehen ins Feuer, wenn's von einer brennenden Punschbowle kommt!“
Brief an die Familie, Gießen, 19. November 1833, S. 334, [buechner_werke_1879/530]
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