Frasi di Tennessee Williams (146 frasi, pagina 4)

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)

“Well, now I've said it, my son was looking for God. I mean for a clear image of Him. He spent that whole blazing equatorial day in the crow's nest of the schooner watching that thing on the beach of the Encantadas till it was too dark to see it, and when he came back down the rigging, he said, Well, now I've seen Him!—and he meant God...”

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Tennessee Williams Suddenly Last Summer

Mrs. Venable, Scene One
Suddenly Last Summer (1958)

“Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it … Success is shy — it won't come out while you're watching.”

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Tennessee Williams

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.
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“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”

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Tennessee Williams

Actually by the Chinese philosopher, educator and popular lecturer Dr. Tehyi Hsieh, Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs, 1948.
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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.”

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Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Amanda, Scene Seven
The Glass Menagerie (1944)

“Eternity!—Didn't it give you the cold shivers?”

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Tennessee Williams Summer and Smoke

Alma, Prologue
Summer and Smoke (1948)

“And the sand all alive, all alive, as the hatched sea-turtles made their dash for the sea, while the birds hovered and swooped to attack and hovered and—swooped to attack! They were diving down on the hatched sea-turtles, turning them over to expose their soft undersides, tearing the undersides open and rending and eating their flesh.”

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Tennessee Williams Suddenly Last Summer

Mrs. Venable, Scene One
Suddenly Last Summer (1958)

“Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.”

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Tennessee Williams

"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)

“Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!”

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Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Tom, Scene Four
The Glass Menagerie (1944)

“You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!”

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Tennessee Williams Summer and Smoke

Alma, Scene Twelve
Summer and Smoke (1948)

“Mother, when you're disappointed, you get that awful suffering look on your face, like the picture of Jesus' mother in the museum!”

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Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Laura, Scene Two
The Glass Menagerie (1944)