key quotes

• "the Kowalski's and the Dubois have different notions"
• "the touch of your hand insults them" ~blanche
• "streetcar"

  ~represents determinism on a constrained journey
• "I'm not crazy, I've just loved and lost too deeply." ~Blanche
• "Napoleonic code"~ stanley
• "Belle Reve? Lost, is it? NO!"
• "the blind are - leading the blind!"~ Blanche
• "it makes me so mad when he does that infront of people"
• "you can't be happy with him! He'll ruin your life!"
• "is he a wolf?"
• "this is my house and i'll talk as much as i want to!"
• "sorrow makes for sincerity, i think"
• "drunk - drunk - animal thing, you!"~ stella to Stanley
• “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
• “Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with!”
• “He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery - love."
• “I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.”
• “They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!”
• "You didn't know Blanche as a girl. Nobody, nobody, was tender and trusting as she was. But people like you abused her, and forced her to change.”
• “He acts like an animal, has an animal's habits! Eats like one, moves like one, talks like one!"
•  There's even something -sub-human -something not quite to the stage of humanity yet! Yes, something - ape-like about him..."
• "Temperature 100 on the nose and she soaks herself in a hot tub."
• "Sister Blanche is no lily! ha ha ! Some lily she is!"
• "I can't help it if every man I meet wants to put his hand up my dress!"
• "Lately you been doing all you can think of to rub her the wrong way."
• "you’ve got to realize that Blanche and I grew up under very different circumstances than you did."
• "I think Blanche didn’t just love him but worshipped the ground he walked on! Adored him and though him almost too fine to be human! But then she found out . . . This beautiful and talented young man was a degenerate."
• "A hot bath and a long, cold drink always give me a new outlook on life!"
• "regarded as not just different but downright loco-nuts"