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
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Amanda, Scene Two
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Power!
Jim, Scene Seven
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
“Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.”
Tennessee Williams The Rose Tattoo
The Timeless World of Play http://books.google.com/books?id=Rp3TJUCT9soC&q=%22Snatching+the+eternal+out+of+the+desperately+fleeting+is+the+great+magic+trick+of+human+existence%22&pg=PA6#v=onepage, an introductory essay to The Rose Tattoo (1951)
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Jim, Scene Seven
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
for nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles Laura — and so goodbye…
Tom, Scene Seven
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
To vary that old, old saying a little bit — I married no planter! I married a man who worked for the telephone company!
Amanda, Scene Six
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
“I didn't go to the moon, I went much further—for time is the longest distance between two places”
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Variante: Time is the longest distance between two places.
Origine: The Glass Menagerie
“Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.”
Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire
Origine: A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Origine: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Amanda, Scene Five
Origine: The Glass Menagerie (1944)
“Everybody is nothing until you love them.”
Tennessee Williams The Rose Tattoo
Origine: The Rose Tattoo
Tennessee Williams Orpheus Descending
Origine: Orpheus Descending
“Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?”
Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Origine: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
“For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye….”
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Tom, Scene Seven
Origine: The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Contesto: Oh, Laura, Laura, I tried to leave you behind me, but I am more faithful than I intended to be! I reach for a cigarette, I cross the street, I run into the movies or a bar, I buy a drink, I speak to the nearest stranger — anything that can blow your candles out! — for nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles Laura — and so goodbye…
