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• Stella: [mildly] Don’t holler at me like that. Hi, mitch.
• “he heaves the package at her. She cries out in protest but manages to catch it; then she laughs breathlessly”
• Eunice: Well, why don’t you just go in and make yourself at home till they get back Blanche: How could I– do that?
• Blanche: Only mr edgar allan poe!- could do it justice! Out there I suppose is the ghoul-haunted woodland of weir!
• Blanche: You hear me? I said stand up! [Stella complies reluctantly] You messy child, you, you’ve splilt something on that pretty white lace collar!
• Stella: Yes. A different species. (of Stanley)
• Stella: But of course there were things to adjust myself to later on.
• Stanley: My clthes’re stickin’ to me. Do you mind if I make myself comfortable? [he starts to remove his shirt]
• She (Stella) jumps up and kisses him which he accepts with a lordly composure
• STELLA: Im going to try to keep Blanche out till the party breaks because I don’t know how she would take it. So we’ll go to one of the little places in the Quarter afterwards and you’d better give me some money.
• STELLA: [vaguely] Oh it (Belle Reve) had to be - sacrificed or something. [There is a pause while Stanley considers].
• BLANCHE: [singing in the bathroom] From the land of sky blue water, they brought a captive maid!
• STELLA: She wasn’t expecting to find us in such a small place. You see Id tried to gloss things over a little in my letters.
• STANLEY: Yeah. I get the idea. Now lets skip back a little to where you said the country place was disposed of.
• STELLA: ...you don’t know how ridiculous you are being when you suggest that my sister or I or anyone of our family could have perpetrated a swindle on anyone.
• STANLEY: Look at these feathers and furs that she come here to preen herself in! What’s this here? A solid-gold dress I believe!...Where are your fox-pieces stella? Bushy snow-white ones, no less?
• STELLA: Those are inexpensive summer furs that Blanche has had a long time
• STANLEY:  And diamonds! A crown for an empress! STELLA: A rhimestone tiara she wore to a costume ball STANLEY: What’s rhinestone? STELLA: Next door to glass.
• STANLEY: the Kowalskis and the DuBois have different notions STELLA: [angrily] Indeed they have, thank heavens
• STANLEY: since when do you give me orders?
• BLANCHE: These are love letters, yellowing from antiquity. BLANCHE: Now that you’ve touched them I’ll have to burn them
• BLANCHE: maybe he’s what we need to mix with our blood now we’ve lost Belle Reve and have to go on without Belle Reve to protect us
• BLANCHE: Please don’t get up STANLEY: Nobody’s going to get up, so don’t be worried.
• BLANCHE: That one seems- superior… I thought he had a sort of sensitive look
• BLANCHE: I haven’t noticed the stamp of genius even on Stanley’s forehead STELLA: It isn’t on his forehead and it isn’t genius
• Such things as art, poetry and music
• I’m compiling a notebook of quaint little words and phrases I’ve picked up here
• Je suis la Dame aux Camellias
• I pulled you right down off those columns and how you loved it
• casting my pearls before swine