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Act 1 pg 2
'I have not
produced
any children, are totally
childless
and therefore totally useless!' - Maggie
Act 1 pg 4
'Monster of
fertility'
- Maggie
Act 1 pg 5
'Motherhoods
an experience that a woman ought to
experience
fully' - Maggie
Act 1 pg 8
'I wasn't
conscious
of looking at you Maggie' - Brick
Act 1 pg 8
'Living with someone you
love
can be
lonelier
- than living entirely alone' - Maggie
Act 1 pg 9
'I'm sorry I never could keep my
finger
off a sore' - Maggie
Act 1 pg 10
'The
charm
of the
defeated'
- Maggie
Act 1 pg 10
'Like opening a door for a
lady'
- Maggie
Act 1 pg 10
'What is the victory of a
cat
on a
hot tin roof
? I wish I knew... Just staying on it I guess' - Maggie
Act 1 pg 11
'Laws of
silence
don't work' - Maggie
Act 1 pg 11
'Like shutting a door and
locking
it on a house on
fire
in hope of forgetting that the house is
burning'
- Maggie
Act 1 pg 11
'Lean on me' - Maggie
Act 1 pg 11
'I don't want to lean on your
shoulder
, I want my
crutch'
- Brick
Act 1 pg 12
'I'm not
living
with you. We occupy the same
cage'
- Maggie
Act 1 pg 14
'Haven't I served my
term
, can't I apply for a
pardon
?' - Maggie
Act 1 pg 15
'Then
jump
off the roof' - Brick
Act 1 pg 16
'But people have got to have some
moments
of
privacy'
- Maggie
Act 1 pg 21
'Her voice is
soft
and
trembling
: a
pleading
child's'
Act 1 pg 24
'two people in the same
boat
have got to take
care
of each other' - Maggie
Act 1 pg 25
'You can be
young
without
money
, but you can't be old without it' - Maggie
Act 1 pg 25
'You asked too goddamn much of people that
loved
you' - Maggie
Act 1 pg 27
'One man has one
great
good
true thing in his life' - Brick
Act 1 pg 28
'In this way, I destroyed him, by telling him the
truth'
- Maggie
Act 2 pg 36
'All my family ever had was
family'
- Maggie
Act 2 pg 39
'You're not taking over because I'm not
dying'
- Big Daddy
Act 2 pg 40
'Wouldn't it be funny if that was true?' - Big Daddy
Act 2 pg 41
'I wasn't
conscious
of it' - Brick
Act 2 pg 42
'You just sit tight and let them
scratch
each others eyes out' - Brick
Act 2 pg 44
'The
walls
have
ears
in this place' - Big Daddy
Act 2 pg 44
'Why is it so damn hard for people to
talk
?' - Big daddy
Act 2 pg 45
'He can't buy back his
life
with it when his life has been spent' - Big Daddy
Act 2 pg 47
'The human animal is a
beast
that dies but the fact that he's
dying
don't give him pity for others' - Big Daddy
Act 2 pg 48
'I thought the old man mad bout of
bones
had laid his
cold
and
heavy
hand on my
shoulder'
- Big Daddy
Act 2 - pg 52
'Expecting death made me
blind'
- Big Daddy
Act 2 pg 54
'The human machine is no different from the
animal
machine' - Big Daddy
Act 2 pg 56
'Have you ever heard the word
mendacity
?' - Brick
Act 2 pg 56
'Mendacity
is one of them five-dollar words that cheap
politicians
throw back and forth at each other' - Big Daddy
Act 2 pg 58
'I've lived with mendacity! - why can't
you
live with it?' - Big Daddy
Act 2 pg 58
'That's not living, that's
dodging
away from life' - Big Daddy
Act 2 pg 64
'Skipper and me had a
clean
,
true
friendship
between us!' - Brick
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