Quotes

• Raffish charm
• Two women, one white, one coloured
• Roughly dressed in blue denim work clothes
• Stanley carries his bowling jacket and a red-stained package from the butcher's
• "Bellowing" "heaves"
• Her appearance is incongruous to this setting
• Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light
• There is something about her uncertain manner, as well as her white clothes, that suggests a moth
• 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!
• A great big place with white columns
• Blanche sits in a chair very stiffly
• A cat screeches. She catches her breath with a startled gesture.
• She springs up
• She pours half a tumbler of whiskey and tosses it down
• She carefully replaces the bottle
• For a moment they stare at each other
• Don't you look at me, Stella, no, no, no, not till later, not till I've bathed
• Turn that over-light off
• This horrible place
• She is shaking all over and panting as she tries to laugh
• Where - where - where is - ?
• Out there I suppose is the ghoul-haunted house of Weir!
• New Orleans isn't like other cities
• No, one's my limit
• Daylight never exposed so total a ruin!
• You messy child
• sit there with your hands folded like a cherub in a choir!
• I am going to take just one little tiny nip more, sort of the put the stopper on, so to speak ...
• They're something like the Irish, aren't they?
• Polaks ?
• They're a mixed lot, Blanche.
• I can't be alone
• A different species.
• I assure you I wasn't just blinded by all the brass
• when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby.
• you left! I stayed and struggled!
• The best I could do was make my own living Blanche.
• I stayed and fought for it, bled for it, almost died for it.
• [The music of the 'blue piano' grows louder.]
• I, I, I took the blows to my face and my body