New ASND quotes

• "Elysian fields" - "raffish charm" - "faded white stairs"
• "He said he'd give us even money" "Naw, We gotta have odds!" Scene 1
• "her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light... suggests a moth" Scene 1
• "They told me to take a streetcar named Desire, and then transfer to one named Cemetries... get off at - Elysian Fields!" Scene 1
• [removes a whiskey bottle... carefully replaces the bottle] Scene 1
• "I won't be looked at in this merciless glare!" Scene 1
• "I was on the verge of - lunacy, almost!" Scene 1
• "the summer you left Belle Reve. The summer Dad died and you left us..." Scene 1
• "got to be with* somebody, I can't* be alone*" (*=italics) Scene 1
• "I, I, I* took the blows to my face and body!" - "the long parade to the graveyard!" - "funerals are pretty compared to deaths"
• [since earliest manhood, the centre of his life has been pleasure with women... power and pride of a richly feathered male bird among hens] Scene 1
• [the gaudy seed-bearer] Scene 1
• "you were married once weren't you?" - [The music of the polka rises up] Scene 1
• "The boy-the boy died... I'm afraid I'm - going to be sick!" Scene 1
• "Uh-hum, I saw how she was. Now lets have agander at the bill of sale" (Stanley thinks Blanche's emotional frailty is a cover up for the theft of the house?) Scene 1
• "A rhinestone tiara" Scene 2
• [Blanche comes out of the bathroom in a red satin robe] Scene 2
• "you're simple, straightforward and honest, a little on the primitive side I should think." Scene 2
• "life is too full of evasions and ambiguities, I think. I like an artist who paints in strong, boldcolours, primary colours" Scene 2
• "Oh papers, papers!... The first anniversary gift, all kinds of papers!" Scene 2
• "everything that I own is in that trunk" Scene 2
• "I hurt him the way that you would like to hurt me, but you can't!" Scene 2
• "uncles and brothers exchanged the land for their epic fornications" Scene 2
• "Yes - I was flirting with your husband, Stella!" Scene 2
• "maybe he's what we need to mix with our blood now that we've lost Belle Reve" Scene 2
• "The blind are - leading the blind!" Scene 2
• [coloured shirts, solid blues, a purple, a red-and-white check, a light green, and they are men at the peak of their physical manhood] Scene 3
• "I oughta go home pretty soon" "shut up" Scene 3
• "please don't get up" - "nobody's going to get up, so don't be worried" Scene 3
• [Stanley gives a loud whack of his hand on her thigh] Scene 3
• "that one seems - superior to the others" - "is he married?" Scene 3
• "Stanley's the only one of his crowd that's likely to get anywhere" - "it's a drive he has" Scene 3
• [stands in her pink silk brassiere and white skirt in the light through the portieres] - "you're standing in the light, Blanche!" - "Oh, am I!" Scene 3
• [with girlish laughter] "you ought to see their wives" - "I can imagine, big beefy things I suppose?" Scene 3
• "And if God choose,

  I shall love thee better - after death!" (ironic as this is sort of symbolic of what happens to Blanche, she is respected after her spirit dies from the rape) Scene 3
• "I'm not accustomed to having more than one drink." Scene 3
• "I can't stand a naked lightbulb, anymore than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action" Scene 3
• "I'm very adaptable - to circumstances" Scene 3
• "it's touching to notice them making their first discovery of love!" Scene 3
• [moves in awkward imitation like a dancing bear] Scene 3