Tennessee Williams Frases famosas
“Há um tempo para partir, mesmo quando não há um lugar certo para ir.”
citado em "Você Nasceu para Vencer" - Página 9, de Mirtes Carneiro - Universo dos Livros Editora LTDA, 2007, ISBN 859918749X, 9788599187494 - 128 páginas
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
Camino Real - Página 78, de Tennessee Williams - New Directions Publishing, 1953, ISBN 0811202186, 9780811202183 - 161 páginas
Variante: Há uma hora de partida mesmo quando não há lugar certo para ir.
Citações de vida de Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams frases e citações
Tennessee Williams: Frases em inglês
“Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.”
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)
for nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles Laura — and so goodbye…
Tom, Scene Seven
The Glass Menagerie (1944)
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”
Variante: Time is the longest distance between two places.
Fonte: The Glass Menagerie
“Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.”
Fonte: A Streetcar Named Desire
“Everybody is nothing until you love them.”
Fonte: The Rose Tattoo
“Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?”
Fonte: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
“For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye….”
Tom, Scene Seven
Fonte: The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Contexto: 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…