Quotes Flashcards

(41 cards)

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“epic fornications”

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“he’s just not the type that goes for jasmine perfume”

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“what I am is a one hundred percent American”

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“Whoever you are - I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”

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“Incongruous to the setting”
“White suit”
“Summer tea or cocktail party”

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“Nobody’s going to get up”

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“Superior to the others”

“Sensitive look”

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Opposite of Stanley

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“We are French by extraction”

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9
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“Every man is a King!” And I am the King around here”

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“Can I come watch”

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“I cry on his lap like a baby”

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12
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“Since when do you give me orders?”

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“Stanley doesn’t give me a regular allowance, he likes to pay bills himself.”

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“He grins through the curtains at Blanche.”

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“I can leave here and not be anyone’s problem”

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“Contains a folding bed to be used by Blanche. The room beyond is a bedroom.”

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17
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“Animal joy”

18
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“Be comfortable is my motto’l

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“Blanche waltzes to the music”I

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“Thrilled by it”

21
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“Is just brutal desire”

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Blanche > disgust

22
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Blanches southern bell demeanour

23
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“Ones my limit”

24
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“Tonight I had three”

“Two is the limit- and three!”

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"Feverish polka time, the "Varsouviana," is heard... She is drinking to escape."
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"Hiding the bottle in the closet, crouching at the mirror and dabbing her face with cologne and powder."
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"wild cat"
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"I won't be looked at in this merciless glare!"
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"I haven't put on one ounce"
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"Admire her dress and tell her she's looking wonderful"
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"I don't want realism - I want magic!"
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"I'm fading now"
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"People like you abused her, and forced her to change."
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"Funerals are pretty compared to deaths"
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"Old fashioned ideals! (She rolls her eyes, knowing he cannot see her face)
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"Ought to be the truth"
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"I couldn't believe her story and go on living with Stanley"
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"This man will destroy me"
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(Of death) "The opposite is desire." | "Intimacies with strangers"
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"Die of eating an unwashed grape" | Romanises even her death
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"They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and transfer to one called Cemeteries, and ride six blocks and get off st- Elysian Fields!"
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