Quotes Flashcards

(105 cards)

1
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Opening Stage Directions: ‘Two women, one…

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…white and one coloured’

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2
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Opening Stage Directions: ‘warm and easy…

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…intermingling of races’

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3
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SD about Stella: ‘a gentle young woman…of a…

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…background obviously quite different from her husband’s’

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4
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‘Catch!’…

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…’What?’ ‘Meat!’

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5
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‘He heaves the package at her…

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…She cries out in protest but manages to catch it’

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6
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About entry of Blanche: ‘Her appearance…

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…is incongruous to this setting’

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7
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Dress of Blanche: ‘She is daintily dressed in a white…

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…suit with a fluffy bodice, necklace and ear-rings of pearl, white gloves and hat’

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8
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Blanche beauty and light: ‘Her delicate beauty…

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…must avoid a strong light’

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9
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Blanche: ‘That suggests…

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…a moth’

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10
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Blanche light: ‘turn that over-light off!…

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…Turn that off! I won’t be looked at in this merciless glare!’

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11
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Blanche appearance: ‘Daylight never exposed…

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…so total a ruin!’

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12
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Stella about Stanley: ‘A Master Sergeant…

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…in the Engineers’ Corp. Those are decorations!’

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13
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Blanche Belle Reve: ‘The loss..

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…-the loss…’

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14
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‘Why, the grim…

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…reaper had put up his tent on our doorstep!’

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15
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‘Animal…

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…joy’

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16
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‘Since earliest manhood…

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…the centre of his life had been pleasure with women’

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17
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‘With the power and…

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…pride of a richly feathered male bird among hens’

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18
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‘He sizes women up at a glance,…

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…with sexual classifications, crude images flashing into his mind and determining the way he smiles at them’

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19
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‘Blanche’s dress, a flowered…

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…print, is laid out on Stella’s bed’

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20
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‘Have you ever…

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…hear of the Napoleonic code?’

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21
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‘He stalks…

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…into the bedroom’

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22
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‘Jerks…

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…out an armful of dresses’

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23
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‘He hurls the furs to the daybed…

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…Then he jerks open a small drawer in the trunk and pulls up a fistful of costume jewellery’

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24
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‘I like an artist…

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…who paints in strong, bold colours, primary colours. I don’t like pinks and creams and I never care for wish-washy people’

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25
‘He rips off…
…the ribbon and starts to examine them’
26
‘The poker players- Stanley,Steve, Mitch and Pablo…
…-wear coloured shirts, solid blues, a purple, a red-and-white check, a light green’
27
‘They are the peak…
…of their physical manhood, as coarse and direct and powerful as the primary colours’
28
‘Stanley gives…
…a loud whack of his hand on her thigh’
29
‘It makes me…
…so mad when he does that infront of people’
30
‘You’re…
…standing in the light Blanche’
31
‘I can’t stand…
…a naked lightbulb’
32
‘Blanche waltzes to the music…
…with romantic gestures. Mitch is delighted and moves in awkward imitation like a dancing bear’
33
‘Stanley charges…
…after Stella’
34
‘Poker shouldn’t…
…be played in a house with women’
35
‘Then they come together…
…with low, animal moans’
36
‘Her eyes…
…go blind with tenderness’
37
‘He snatches the screen door open…
…and lifts her off her feet and bears her into the dark flat’
38
‘Narcotised…
…tranquillity’
39
‘The debris of the preceding night and…
…Stanley’s gaudy pyjamas lie across the threshold of the bathroom’
40
‘Stanley’s always smashed things. Why, on our wedding night…
…-soon as we came in here- he snatched off one of my slippers and rushed about the place smashing the light-bulbs with it’
41
‘I was- sort…
…of - thrilled by it’
42
‘I’m not…
…in anything I want to get out of’
43
‘But there are things…
…that happen between a man and a women in the dark - that sort of make everything else seem - unimportant’
44
‘He acts like an animal, has…
…animal habits! Eats like one, moves like one, talks like one!’
45
‘Stanley Kowalski…
…survivor of the Stone Age!’
46
‘Bearing the…
…raw meat home from the kill in the jungle! And you - you here - waiting for him!’
47
‘Maybe he’ll strike…
You or maybe grunt and kiss you!’
48
‘A clatter of aluminium striking a wall is heard, followed by…
…a man’s angry roar, shouts, and overturned furniture. There is a crash; then a relative hush’
49
‘Virgo…
…is the Virgin’
50
‘Capricorn…
…-the Goat!’
51
‘Steve’s arm is around Eunice’s shoulder…
…and she is sobbing luxuriously and he is cooing love-words’
52
‘I’ve run for protection, Stella, from under one leaky…
…roof to another leaky roof - because it was storm - all storm’
53
‘People don’t see you - *men* don’t…
…- don’t even admit your existence unless they are making love to you’
54
‘And you’ve got to have your existence admitted by someone,…
…if you’re going to have someone’s protection’
55
‘I want to deceive him…
…enough to make him - want me’
56
‘I want to kiss you…
…just once - softly and sweetly on your mouth’
57
‘For Mitch is bearing,…
…upside down, a plaster statuette of Mae West’
58
‘It was like you suddenly…
…turned on a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow’
59
‘She claps her hands to her hears and…
…crouches over. The headlight of the locomotive glares into the room as it thunders past’
60
‘He’d stuck the revolver into…
…his mouth, and fired- so that the back of his head had been - blown away!’
61
‘And then the searchlight which had been turned on…
…the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that’s stronger than this - kitchen - candle’
62
‘The polka…
…tune fades out’
63
‘But when she was young,…
…very young, she had an experience that -killed her illusions!’
64
‘Just to make sure I bought…
…her ticket myself. A bus-ticket!’
65
‘This distant piano…
…goes into a hectic breakdown’
66
‘“Every Man is…
…a King!” And I am the king around here so don’t forget it!’
67
‘He hurls a cup…
…and saucer to the floor’
68
‘God, honey, it’s gonna be sweet…
…when we can make noise in the night the way that we used and get the coloured lights going with nobody’s sister behind the curtains to hear us!’
69
‘But what I am is a one hundred per cent American,…
…born and raised in the greatest country on earth and proud as hell of it, so don’t ever call me a Polack’
70
‘Ticket!…
…Back to Laurel!’
71
‘I pulled you down…
…off them columns and how you loved it, having them coloured lights going!’
72
‘She has on her…
…Scarlet Satin robe’
73
‘I don’t think…
…I ever seen you in the light’
74
‘I’ve never…
…had a real good look at you Blanche’
75
‘He tears the paper…
…lantern off the light-bulb. She utters a frightened gasp’
76
‘Carrying bunches of those gaudy…
…tin flowers that lower-class Mexicans display at funerals and other festive occasions’
77
‘*fumbling to embrace her*…
…What I have been missing all summer’
78
‘You’re not…
…clean enough to bring in the house with my mother’
79
‘She has decked herself out…
…in a somewhat soiled and crumpled white satin evening gown and a pair of scuffed silver slippers’
80
‘Rhinestone…
…tiara’
81
‘Slams the mirror…
…down with such violence that the glass cracks’
82
‘the silk…
…pyjamas I wore on my wedding night’
83
‘Physical…
…beauty is passing’
84
‘Not once did you…
…pull any wool over this boy’s eyes’
85
‘*Lurid reflections appear*…
…*on the walls around Blanche. The shadows are of a grotesque and menacing form*’
86
‘*The night is filled*…
…*with inhuman voices like cries in a jungle*’
87
‘*A prostitute has rolled a drunkard.He pursues*…
…*her along the walk, overtakes her, and there is a struggle. A policeman’s whistle breaks it up*’
88
‘*He grins at her as*…
…*as he knots the tasseled sash about his waist*’
89
‘*The sound of it turns into*…
…*the roar of an approaching locomotive*’
90
‘*He takes a step towards her*…
…*biting his tongue which protrudes between his lips*’
91
‘So you want some rough-house!…
…All right, let’s have some rough-house!’
92
‘Drop the bottle-top!…
…Drop it!’
93
‘We’ve had…
..this date with each other from the beginning!’
94
‘I couldn’t believe…
…her story and go on living with Stanley’
95
‘It’s Della…
…Robbia blue’
96
‘I shall die…
…of eating an unwashed grape one day’
97
‘And I’ll be buried at sea…
…sewn up in a clean white sack and dropped overboard’
98
‘Please don’t…
…get up. I’m only passing through’
99
‘*tearing it off the light-bulb, and extends*…
…*it towards her. She cries out as if the lantern was herself*’
100
‘*Mitch collapses*…
…*at the table, sobbing*’
101
‘I have always…
…depended on the kindness of strangers’
102
‘*It is wrapped*…
…*in a pale blue blanket*
103
‘*his fingers*…
…*find an opening in her blouse*’
104
‘*the luxurious sobbing, the*
…*sensual murmur fade away*’
105
‘This game..
…is seven-card stud’