Quotes

• "take a streetcar named desire, transfer to one called cemeteries and get off at Elysian Fields"
• "I need kindness now"
• "I don't want realism, I want magic"
• "how you love it!having them colour lights going"
• "I have always depended on the kindness of others"
• "he was a boy, just a boy"
• "we've had this date with each other from the beginning"
• “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"
• “I never met a woman that didn’t know if she was good-looking or not without being told, and some of them give themselves credit for more than they’ve got.”
• "He sizes women up with a glance, with sexual classifications, crude images flashing into his mind and determining the way he smiles at them.”
• "turn that over-light off! Turn that off! I won't be looked at in this merciless glare"
• "When I was sixteen, I made the discovery – love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that’s how it struck the world for me"
• "this game is a seven card stud"
• "I've got to be good and keep my hands of children"
• 'It's only a paper moon...it wouldn't be make-believe if you believed in me'

  make belief world as coping mechanism as ironically stanley is destroying this with revelations of blanches promiscuity
• 'Frantically' 'Hiding the bottle in a closet crouching the mirror and dabbing her face with cologne and powder'
• 'The shadows are of a grotesque and menacing form'

  plastic theatre to illuminate blanches nightmares and secrets and vulnerability
• 'Stalks fiercely, snatches off the radio, tosses the instrument out the window',
• "Varsouviana" music and polka
• Oh, I guess he’s just not the type that goes for jasmine perfume, but maybe he’s what we need to mix with our blood now that we’ve lost Belle Reve.
• I am not a Polack. People from Poland are Poles, not Polacks. But what I am is a one hundred percent American, born and raised in the greatest country on earth and proud as hell of it, so don’t ever call me a Polack.
• What such a man has to offer is animal force and he gave a wonderful exhibition of that! But the only way to live with such a man is to—go to bed with him! And that’s your job—not mine!
• By coming suddenly into a room that I thought was empty—which wasn’t empty, but had two people in it . . . the boy I had married and an older man who had been his friend for years . . .
• Oh! So you want some rough-house! All right, let’s have some rough-house! Tiger—tiger! Drop the bottle top! Drop it! We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning!
• You know, I haven’t put on one ounce in ten years, Stella? I weigh what I weighed the summer you left Belle Reve. The summer Dad died and you left us . . .
• When she comes in, be sure to say something nice about her appearance .. . . And admire her dress and tell her she’s looking wonderful. That’s important with Blanche. Her little weakness!
• "The loss - The Loss"
• "I pulled you down off them columns and how you loved it"
• "fire" = response to mitchs sexual advancement
• "casting my pearls before swine"
• "wedding night pyjamas"
• "the gaudy seed bearer" (stage directions)
• "a richly feathered male bird among hens"
• "napoleonic code according to which belongs to the wife belongs to the husband and vice versa"
• "you needn't have been so cruel to someone as alone as she is"

  "Nobody, nobody, was tender and trusting as she was. But people like you abusd her, and forced her to change"
• "there are things that happen between a man and a women in the dar- that sort of makes everything else seem - unimportant"
• "I couldn't believe her stroy and go on living with stanley"
• "you're not clean enough to bring I the house with my mother"
• "you can't beat a woman an then call er back"
• "come to think of it - maybe you wouldn't be so bad to - interfere with"