A Streetcar Named Desire Quotes
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“Blue denim work clothes”
Stage directions - S1
“A background obviously quite different from her husband’s.”
Stage directions - S1
“He heaves the package at her.”
Stage directions - S1
“Her appearance is incongruous to this setting.”
Stage directions - S1
“Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light.”
Stage directions - S1
“Moth”
Stage directions - S1
“Not till I’ve bathed”
Blanche - S1
“I won’t be looked at in this merciless glare!”
Blanche - S1
“I can’t be alone!”
Blanche - S1
“Richly feathered male bird among hens.”
Stage directions - S1
“The unrefined type.”
Stanley - S1
“A little bit on the primitive side”
Blanche - S2
“He’s what we need to mix with our blood now that we’ve lost Belle Reve”
Blanche - S2
“I’ll be alone when she goes.”
Mitch - Poker night
“Blanche moves back into the streak of light.”
Stage directions - Poker night
“Animal thing,”
Stella - Poker night
“He falls on his knees on the steps and presses his face to her belly,”
Stage directions - Poker night
“Raises him level with her.”
Stage directions - Poker night
“Stanley’s gaudy pyjamas lie across the threshold of the bathroom.”
Stage directions - S4
“He was as good as a lamb”
Stella - S4
“I am not in anything that I have a desire to get out of.”
Stella - S4
“He likes to pay bills himself,”
Stella - S4
“What such a man has to offer is animal force”
Blanche - S4
“Brutal desire”
Blanche - S4
“Don’t you think your superior attitude is a bit out of place?”
Stella - S4
“Under cover of the train’s noise Stanley enters”
Stage directions - S4
“Survivor of the Stone Age!”
Blanche - S4
“Soft people have got to court the favour of hard ones,”
Blanche - S5
“Making a pig of himself”
Stella - S8
“I am the king around here,”
Stanley - S8
“It’s gonna be all right after she goes and after you’ve had the baby.”
Stanley - S8
“I pulled you down off them columns and how you loved it,”
Stanley - S8
“The music is in her mind; she is drinking to escape it and the sense of disaster closing in on her,”
Stage directions - S9
“I don’t want realism.”
Blanche - S9
“I tell what ought to be the truth.”
Blanche - S9
“Intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty heart with…”
Blanche - S9
“Tied an old tin can to the tail of the kite.’
Blanche - S9
“You’re not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother.”
Mitch - S9
“Soiled and crumpled white satin evening gown”
Stage directions - S10
“Casting my pearls before swine!”
Blanche - S10
“Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable.”
Blanche - S10
“Our attitudes and our backgrounds are incompatible.”
Blanche - S10
“There isn’t a goddam thing but imagination!”
Stanley - S10
“We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning!”
Stanley - S10
“Don’t ever believe it.”
Eunice - S11
“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
Blanche - S11
“Eunice descends to Stella and places the child in her arms.”
Stage directions - S11
“Stella accepts the child,”
Stage directions - S11
“He kneels beside her”
Stage directions - S11
“This game is seven-card stud.”
Steve - S11
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