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ASND Quotes
Hopelessness
- 'And so it was I entered the broken world' (Epigraph)
- 'Her appearance is incongruous to this setting' (Scene 1)
- '[The distant piano goes into a hectic breakdown]' (Scene 7)
- '[Outside a train approaches [...] Under cover the train's noise Stanley enters]' (Scene 4)
Insecurity
- 'Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light...something about her uncertain manner, as well as her white clothes, that suggests a moth' (Scene 1)
- 'Admire her dress and tell her she's looking wonderful' (Scene 2)
- 'Blanche is bathing' (Scene 2)
- 'I can't stand a naked light-bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or vulgar action.' (Scene 3)
- 'You're not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother' (Scene 9)
- '[he tears the paper lantern]' (Scene 9)
Class divide
- '[Elysian Fields' 'tender blue almost turquoise' 'a kind of lyricism and gracefully attenuates the atmosphere of decay]' (Scene 1)
- 'Where were you. In bed with your - polak' (Scene 1)
- 'cosmopolitan city' 'intermingling of races' (Scene 1)
Self control
- 'I've got to keep hold of myself' (Scene 1)
- '[Then they come together with low, animal moans.]' (Scene 3)
Hope, Dreams, Desire
- 'They told me to take a streetcar named desire and then transfer to one called cemeteries and get off at Elysian Fields' (Scene 1)
- 'Thank you for being so kind! I need kindness now.' (Scene 3)
- 'We are going pretend that we are sitting in a little artists' cafe on the Left Bank in Paris!' (Scene 6)
- 'Say, it's only a paper Moon, sailing over a cardboard Sea- but it wouldn't be make-believe if you believed in me!' (Scene 7)
- 'What you are talking about is brutal desire- just- Desire!' (Scene 4)
Fantasy
- '[The music of the polka rises up, faint in the distance]' (Scene 1)
- '[narcotized tranquility]' (Scene 4)
- 'Capricorn-the goat!', 'Virgo is the virgin' (Scene 5)
- 'The hotel flamingo is not the sort of establishment I would dare to be seen in!' (Scene 5)
- 'Oh, I feel so good after my long, hot bath, I feel so good and cool and - rested!' (Scene 7)
- 'I am not a Polack [...] what I am is a one hundred percent American, born and raised in the greatest country on earth.' (Scene 8)
- 'I don't want realism. [...] I want magic!' (scene 9)
- 'Whoever you are - I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.' (Scene 11)
- '[She has decked herself out in a somewhat soiled and crumpled white satin evening gown [...] Now she is placing the rhinestone tiara on her head]' (Scene 10)
Men and Women
- 'Roughly dressed in blue denim work clothes... carries a red-stained package' (Scene 1)
- '[Animal joy in his being is implicit in all his movements and attitudes]' (Scene 1)
- 'It looks to me like you have been swindled, baby, and when you're swindled under the Napoleonic code I'm swindled too. And I don't like to be swindled' (Scene 2)
- 'You hens cut out that conversation in there!' (Scene 3)
- 'Poker should not be played in a house with women' (Scene 3)
- '[Stanley gives a loud whack of his hand on her thigh.]' (Scene 3)
- 'Over her head he grins through the curtains at Blanche.' (Scene 4)
- 'He was as good as a lamb when I came back and he's really very, very ashamed of himself.' (Scene 4)
- 'Stanley Kowalski-survivor of the Stone Age!' (Scene 4)
- 'What such a man has to offer is animal force and he gave a wonderful exhibition of that!' (Scene 4)
- 'He was a boy, just a boy', 'there was something different about the boy, a nervousness, a softness and tenderness', '... Had two people in it' (Scene 6)
- 'Hey canary bird! Toots! Get OUT of the BATHROOM!' (Scene 7)
- 'Every Man is a King!' (Scene 8)
- 'The inhuman jungle voices rise up' (Scene 10)
- '[Lurid reflections appear on the walls around Blanche. The shadows are of a grotesque a menacing form]' (Scene 10)
- 'I couldn't believe her story and go on living with Stanley' (Scene 11)
- 'Life has got to go on. No matter what happens you've got to keep on going.' (Scene 11)
- '[He kneels beside her and his fingers find the opening of her blouse] Now, now, love' (Scene 11)
- 'This game is a seven-card stud.' (Scene 11)