Tennessee Williams frasi celebri
da La maledizione, traduzione di Giuliana Beltrami Gadola
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Origine: Citato in Michelangelo Capua, Montgomery Clift, vincitore e vinto, Lindau Editore, 2009. ISBN 9788871808086
da Il desiderio e il massaggiatore negro, traduzione di Giuliana Beltrami Gadola
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“Le parole sono una rete per catturare la bellezza!”
da Il campo dei bambini azzurri, traduzione di Giuliana Beltrami Gadola
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da Tre giocatori di un gioco estivo, traduzione di Nora Finzi
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Tennessee Williams: Frasi in inglese
“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
Origine: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Origine: The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
“A Prayer for the Wild at Heart That Are Kept in Cages”
This is the subtitle of the play
Origine: Stairs to the Roof (1941)
“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
Origine: A Streetcar Named Desire
“How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”
Origine: The Glass Menagerie
“In memory everything seems to happen to music.”
Tom (As Narrator Scene One)
Origine: The Glass Menagerie (1944)
“All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.”
Amanda, Scene Six
Origine: The Glass Menagerie (1944)
“People go to the movies instead of moving!”
Tom, Scene Six
Origine: The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Contesto: 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!
Origine: "The Past, the Present and the Perhaps," http://books.google.com/books?id=mTRaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22The+future+is+called+perhaps+which+is+the+only+possible+thing+to+call+the+future+And+the+important+thing+is+not+to+allow+that+to+scare+you%22&pg=PA7#v=onepage introduction to Orpheus Descending (1957)
Origine: Collected Stories
“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”
Don Quixote in Prologue
Variante: When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Origine: Camino Real (1953)
“All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.”
The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963)
Christopher
Origine: The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (1963)
“I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.”
Origine: Sweet Bird of Youth
“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.”
Origine: Camino Real
“We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.”
Val ( Act 2, Scene 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=oOhF2S_tsIoC&q=%22We're+all+of+us+sentenced+to+solitary+confinement+inside+our+own+skins+for+life%22&pg=PA33#v=onepage)
Orpheus Descending (1957)
Origine: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays
