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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  

✵ 26. Marzo 1911 – 25. Febbraio 1983
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“Nella memoria tutto sembra accadere con musica.”

Tennessee Williams

“Dio poteva anche essere, a ripensarci, un abitante di questa città misteriosamente guasta, le cui case grigio brune erano come pelli secche di locuste. Dio era, come Lucio, un uomo solo e sbigottito, Che avvertiva che c'era qualcosa di sbagliato ma non poteva porci rimedio, un uomo Che sentiva il sonnambulo e maldestro incedere del tempo e l'ostilità della sorte e avrebbe voluto nascondersi lontano da queste cose in luoghi pieni di luce e di calore.”

Tennessee Williams

da La maledizione, traduzione di Giuliana Beltrami Gadola
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“[A proposito di Montgomery Clift] Ero incantato dalla sua bellezza femminile. Monty era la più adorabile delle persone al mondo, era considerato il miglior giovane attore americano. […] Fui ipnotizzato dai suoi occhi. Erano come quelli di un uccellino ferito.”

Tennessee Williams

Origine: Citato in Michelangelo Capua, Montgomery Clift, vincitore e vinto, Lindau Editore, 2009. ISBN 9788871808086

“Il desiderio è qualcosa che viene a occupare uno spazio più grande di quello che il singolo individuo può concedergli.”

Tennessee Williams

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!”

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da Il campo dei bambini azzurri, traduzione di Giuliana Beltrami Gadola
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“La bellezza fisica, fra tutte le qualità umane, è quella usata e sprecata con maggior prodigalità; come se chiunque l'abbia creata la disprezzasse, giacché tanto spesso è fatta soltanto per essere disonorata dolorosamente e per gradi, e trascinata in catene per le vie.”

Tennessee Williams

da Tre giocatori di un gioco estivo, traduzione di Nora Finzi
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Tennessee Williams: Frasi in inglese

“You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to…
-To lay her cards out on the table.”

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Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Origine: A Streetcar Named Desire

“When I was sixteen, I made the discovery -- love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me.”

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Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Origine: A Streetcar Named Desire

“No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.”

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Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Origine: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven't I done time enough, haven't I served my term? can't I apply for a-pardon?”

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Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Origine: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing”

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Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Origine: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“I want to infect you with the tremendous excitement of living, because I believe that you have the strength to bear it.”

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Tennessee Williams

Origine: The Selected Letters, Vol. 1: 1920-1945

“I'll just imagine he had an operation. The horn was removed to make him feel less — freakish! Now he will feel more at home with the other horses, the ones that don't have horns…”

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Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Laura, Scene Seven
The Glass Menagerie (1944)

“We saw the Encantadas, but on the Encantadas we saw something Melville hadn't written about.”

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Tennessee Williams Suddenly Last Summer

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

“You don't know things anywhere! You live in a dream; you manufacture illusions!”

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Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Amanda, Scene Seven
The Glass Menagerie (1944)

“I took that horrible novel back to the library — yes! That hideous book by that insane Mr. Lawrence. I cannot control the output of diseased minds or people who cater to them — BUT I WON'T ALLOW SUCH FILTH BROUGHT INTO MY HOUSE! No, no, no, no, no!”

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Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Amanda, Scene Three
The Glass Menagerie (1944)

“The tables have turned, yes, the tables have turned with a vengeance! You've come around to my old way of thinking and I to yours like two people exchanging a call on each other at the same time, and each one finding the other one gone out, the door locked against him and no one to answer the bell!”

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Tennessee Williams Summer and Smoke

Alma, Scene Eleven
Summer and Smoke (1948)

“I never saw a more beautiful woman, enormous eyes, skin the color of Devonshire cream.”

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After meeting Anna Magnani, as quoted in Tennessee Williams : Rebellious Puritan (1961) by Nancy Marie Patterson Tischler, p. 175

“All of my gentlemen callers were sons of planters and of course I assumed that I would be married to one and raise my family on a large piece of land with plenty of servants. But man proposes — and woman accepts the proposal! — To vary that old, old saying a little bit — I married no planter! I married a man who worked for the telephone company!”

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Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Amanda, Scene Six
The Glass Menagerie (1944)

“Shakespeare probably wrote a poem on that light bill, Mrs. Wingfield.”

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Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

Jim, Scene Seven
The Glass Menagerie (1944)

“I know this place. … Here it is on the chart. Look, it says here: "Continue until you come to the square of a walled town which is the end of the Camino Real and the beginning of the Camino Real. Halt there," it says, "and turn back, Traveler, for the spring of humanity has gone dry in this place…”

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Tennessee Williams Camino Real

Sancho
Camino Real (1953)

“I 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.”

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Tennessee Williams Sweet Bird of Youth

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.
Misattributed

“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.
Misattributed
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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"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)

“The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!”

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Tennessee Williams The Rose Tattoo

Rosa, Act Three, Scene Three
The Rose Tattoo (1951)

“The sort of life which I had previous to this popular success was one that required endurance, a life of clawing and scratching along a sheer surface and holding on tight with raw fingers to every inch of rock higher than the one caught hold of before, but it was a good life because it was the sort of life for which the human organism is created. I was not aware of how much vital energy had gone into this struggle until the struggle was removed. I was out on a level plateau with my arm still thrashing and my lungs still grabbing at air that no longer resisted. This was security at last. I sat down and looked about me and was suddenly very depressed.”

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Tennessee Williams libro The Catastrophe of Success

page 15
The Catastrophe of Success (1945)

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