{"id":8878,"date":"2021-03-03T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=8878"},"modified":"2021-06-23T08:17:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T12:17:00","slug":"tennessee-williams-in-his-own-words-an-opportunity-for-likes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=8878","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Williams: In His Own Words"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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(Very) recently I discovered a thing called Quote Cards, which seem to be used in Facebook posts, to create cards for book promotion, etc., etc., etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So many times I read a powerful\/beautiful\/resonant sentence that inspires a \u201cWow!\u201d You probably spot those too. Was there a sentence in the last book or story you read that stopped you in your tracks? That meant something powerful to you in that moment? Put it in the comments! I\u2019ll compile a list for all of us. And I’ll bet you get lots of likes!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, here are quotes from a master. The Zoom class on Tennessee Williams I\u2019ve been taking ended last week, and if you\u2019ve read the previous posts about it (links below), you\u2019ll know how interesting it was. The class was led by Bonnie J. Monte, artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey<\/a>. The theater\u2019s next session is on Shakespeare\u2019s Henry V.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For our last class, each of the 45 or so students submittedthought-provoking quotations from Williams\u2019s plays, stories, and poems that particularly struck us. Here\u2019s a sampling:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI tell you, there\u2019s so much loneliness in this house that you can hear it.\u201d (Vieux Carr\u00e9<\/em>)
“Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.\u201d (\u201cThe Timeless World of a Play,\u201d essay)
\u201cI\u2019m not living with you. We occupy the same cage.\u201d (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof<\/em>)
\u201cCaged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.\u201d (Camino Real<\/em>)
\u201cA prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.\u201d (Stairs to the Roof<\/em>)
\u201cEvery time you come in yelling that God damn \u2018Rise and shine! Rise and shine!\u2019 I say to myself, \u2018How lucky dead people are!\u2019\u201d (The Glass Menagerie<\/em>)
\u201cMendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out and death\u2019s the other.\u201d (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof<\/em>)
\u201cThe girl who said \u2018no,\u2019 she doesn\u2019t exist anymore, she died last summer\u2014suffocated in smoke from something inside her.\u201d (Summer and Smoke<\/em>)
\u201cThere\u2019s a time for departure even when there\u2019s no certain place to go!\u201d (Camino Real<\/em>)
\u201cMake voyages\u2014attempt them\u2014there\u2019s nothing else!\u201d (Camino Real<\/em>)
\u201cI think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.\u201d (Sweet Bird of Youth<\/em>)
“The only difference between a success and a failure is a success knows an opportunity when he sees it and a failure doesn\u2019t.\u201d (Night of the Iguana<\/em>)
\u201cAll of us are in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars!\u201d (Summer and Smoke<\/em>)
\u201cIf I got rid of my demons, I\u2019d lose my angels.\u201d (Conversations with Tennessee Williams)
\u201cWhy did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.\u201d (Tennessee Williams)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previous posts in this series:
The Deep Dive<\/a> (2\/10)
How to See<\/a> (2\/17)
The Actor\u2019s Challenge<\/a> (2\/24)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image by sonseona for Pixabay<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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