Quotes Flashcards
(24 cards)
Stage directions: (Stella) obviously…
Obviously quite different from her husband
Stage directions: (Blanche) - her appearance…
Her appearance is incongruous to this setting
I, I, I took the blows (scene 1- death monologue)
I, I, I took the blows in my face and my body
The grim reaper had… (Scene 1 - death monologue)
The grim reaper had put up his tent on our doorstep.
Stage directions - Stanley “animal joy… Implicit…
“animal joy… Implicit in all his movements and attitudes”
Life is too full… (Scene 2)
Life is too full of evasions and ambiguities
I hurt him the way… (Scene 2)
I hurt him the way that you would like to hurt me
Stage directions- scene 3
“…they are men at the peak
“…they are men at the peak of their physical manhood…”
(Blanche about Mitch) I thought he had…
I thought he had a sort of sensitive look
That one seems-
That one seems- superior to the others
Thank you for being so… (Scene 3)
Thank you for being so kind! I need kindness now. (Foreshadowing)
I’m not in anything…
I’m not in anything I want to get out of
What you are talking about is…
What you are talking about is brutal desire - just - desire
I’ve outstayed
I’ve outstayed my welcome (scene 6)
I like you to be…
I like you to be exactly the way that you are. (Ironic)
It was like you suddenly turned…
It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light in something that had always been half in shadow
And then the searchlight which had been turned in the world…
And then the searchlight which had been turned in the world was turned off again
…people like you abused her…
…people like you abused her, and forced her to change (scene 8)
I pulled you down off them…
I pulled you down off them columns and how you loved it
After the death of Allan - the …
After the death of Allan - the intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty head with
… I think it was panic, just panic… Hunting…
… I think it was panic, just panic… Hunting for some protection… In the most- unlikely places
Deliberate cruelty is not…
Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable.
Life has got to go on …
Life has got to go on. No matter what happens, you’ve got to keep on going
Whoever you are - I…
Whoever you are - I have always depended on the kindness of strangers
