Frasi di Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams
Data di nascita: 26. Marzo 1911
Data di morte: 25. Febbraio 1983
Tennessee Williams, pseudonimo di Thomas Lanier Williams , è stato un drammaturgo, scrittore, sceneggiatore e poeta statunitense.
Il 9 giugno 1980 il Presidente degli Stati Uniti Jimmy Carter gli ha concesso la Medaglia presidenziale della libertà. Wikipedia
Frasi Tennessee Williams
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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„I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?“
— Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Origine: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
— Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
Amanda, Scene One
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
„People go to the movies instead of moving!“
— Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
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!
— Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
Origine: A Streetcar Named Desire
„If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.“
Origine: Conversations with Tennessee Williams
— Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
Origine: A Streetcar Named Desire
„A Prayer for the Wild at Heart That Are Kept in Cages“
— Tennessee Williams, Stairs to the Roof
This is the subtitle of the play
Origine: Stairs to the Roof (1941)
„I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.“
— Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
Origine: A Streetcar Named Desire
— Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending
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)
