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Sweet Bird Of Youth & Streetcar Quotes
| Stimulus | Quote |
|---|---|
| Boss | "Hell, when I was fifteen, I come down barefoot from the red clay hills as if the Voice of God called me." |
| Heavenly | "I felt worse than embarassed when I found out that Dr George Scudder's knife had cut the youth out of my body... I feel as though I ought to rattle like a dried up vine when the Gulf wind blows." |
| Alexandra? BLACKMAILED? | "When monster meets monster, one monster has to give way, AND IT WILL NEVER BE ME." |
| Chance and Alexandra are actually quite similar | "BEAUTY. Say it! What you had was beauty! I had it! I say it with pride, no matter how sad, being gone now." |
| Romanticism | "The sun was behind her, I squinted. She had on a silky wet tank suit and fans of water and mist made rainbows about her..." |
| Ouch! Aunt Nonnie! | "What you want to go back to is your clean, unashamed youth. And you can't" |
| Age | "Princess, the age of some people can only be calculated by the level of - level of - rot in them, and by that measure I'm ancient." |
| Chance on time | "It goes tick-tick, it's quieter than your heartbeat, but it's slow dynamite, a gradual explosion, blasting the world we live in to burnt out pieces." |
| Princess on herself | We are two monsters... Out of the passion and torment of my existence I have created a thing that I can unveil, a sculpture, almost heroic..." |
| Princess on Chance | "...But you? You've come back to the town you were born in, to a girl that won't see you because you put so much rot in her body she had to be gutted and hung on a butcher's hook." |
| END | "I don't ask for your pity, just you understanding - not even that - just your recognition of me in you and the enemy, time in us all." |
| Stanley | [hollering] Hey there! Stella! Baby! ... Catch! Catch what? Meat! [He heaves the package at her. She cries out in protest but manages to catch it: then she laughs breathlessly." |
| Blanche's appearence | "Her appearence is incongruous to this setting. She is daintily dressed in a whit suit and fluffy bodice...Looking as if she were arriving at a summer tea, or cocktail party...Her delicate beauty must avoid strong light." |
| Moth | "There is something about her uncertain manner, as well as her white clothes that suggests a moth." |
| The code | In the state of Louisiana we have the Napoleonic code according to which what belongs to the wife belongs to the husband and vice versa...And I don't like to be swindled!" |
| Blanche to Stella - she's really not her own person | I brought some nice clothes to meet all your lovely friends in I'm afraid you won't think they're lovely What are they like? They're Stanley's friends." |
| Blanche being powerful | "The poor thing was out there listening to us and I have an idea she doesn't understand you as well as I do... Allright; now, Mr Kowalski, let us proceed without any more double talk. I'm ready to answer all questions. I've nothing to hide. What is it?" |
| Shep Huntleigh | "Honey, would I be here if the man weren't married? [Stella laughs a little, Blanche suddenly springs up and crosses to the phone. She speaks Shrilly.]...[She grabs up a sheet of kleenex and an eyebrow pencil for writing equipment.] |
| Stanley is a beast | "Thousands and Thousands of years have passed him by and there he is, Stanley Kowalski, survivor of the Stone Age!" |
| The Flamingo | "The odour of cheap perfume is penetrating" |
| Soft wee Blanche | "Soft people have got to... put on soft colours, the colours of butterfly wings, and glow - make a little - temporary magic just in order to pay for - one night's shelter..." |
| Soft people | "Soft people have got to - shimmer, and glow - put a - paper lantern over the light... But I'm scared now - awf'ly scared. I don't know how much longer I can turn the trick." |
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