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Cat Act 1Quotes Flashcards

1
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No-neck monsters… because they got no necks

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Maggie, 1
Derogatory pre-modifier
Animalistic imagery

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They bought the whole bunch down here like animals to display at a county fair

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Maggie, 1
Simile
Animalistic imagery

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3
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Totally childless and therefore totally useless

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Maggie, 1
Declarative
Superlatives
Syntactic parallelism

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Now we know that Big Daddy is dying of cancer

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Maggie, 1

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[Rainbow Hill] is where they aim to ship you over my dead body

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Maggie, 1
Idiom

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Jumping the hurdles at two or three in the morning is just fantastic

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Maggie, 1

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7
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You say something, Maggie

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Brick, 1
Threatening her positive face

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8
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That monster of fertility, Mae

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Maggie, 1
Metaphor

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I sometimes suspect that Big Daddy harbours a little unconscious lech for me

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Maggie, 1
Challenging Brick

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Did anyone ever tell you that you’re an ass-aching Puritan, Brick

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Maggie, 1
Rhetorical question
Complicated religious history in America

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Scream, monsters!

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Maggie, 1
Imperative
Derogatory vocative

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They were like a couple of card-sharps fleecing a sucker

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Maggie, 1
Simile

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13
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The Flynns never had a thing in this world but money, and they lost that

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Maggie, 1

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I can’t describe it, but it froze my blood

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Maggie, 1

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I’ve gone through this hideous transformation, become hard, frantic, cruel

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Maggie, 1

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I’m not thin-skinned anymore, can’t afford to be thin-skinned

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Maggie, 1

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17
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living alone, if the one you love doesn’t love you

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Maggie, 1

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I always thought drinking men lost their looks, but I was clearly mistaken

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Maggie, 1

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It was just beginning to soften up Skipper when-

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Maggie, 1

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20
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I wish you would lose your looks because it would make the martyrdom of st. Maggie more bearable, but no goddamn luck

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Maggie, 1

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21
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Like you were playing a game with no concern with whether you won or lost

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Maggie, 1

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22
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The charm of the defeated. You look so cool, so cool, so enviably cool

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Maggie, 1

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23
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Your indifference made you wonderful at love-making

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Maggie, 1

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24
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If I thought you would never make love to me again, I swear I would go down to the kitchen, pull out the longest and sharpest knife and stick it straight in my heart, I swear I would

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Maggie, 1

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25
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My hat is still in the ring and I am determined to win

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Maggie, 1

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26
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What’s the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? I wish I knew. Just staying on it as long as she can, I guess

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Maggie, 1

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27
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Forgive me, but laws of silence don’t work. Laws of silence don’t work. When something is festering in your imagination laws of silence don’t work… it grows and festers and becomes malignant

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Maggie, 1

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28
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I don’t want to lean on your shoulder, I want my crutch

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Brick, 1

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29
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The walls in this house have ears

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Maggie, 1

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30
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A crack in the wall? Of composure?

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Maggie, 1

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31
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The click that I get in my head when I’ve had enough of this stuff to make me peaceful

32
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You keep forgetting the conditions on which I agreed to keep on living with you

33
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I’m not living with you, we occupy the same cage

34
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Normal, red-blooded children

35
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Why do you give dog’s names to all of your kiddies?… sounds like 4 dogs and a parrot

36
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Because I’m a cat. But why can’t you take a joke, Sister woman

37
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Intermission is over

38
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Why am I so catty? Because I’m so consumed by envy and eaten up by longing

39
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Haven’t I served my term, done my time? Can’t I apply for a pardon?

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Maggie, 1
Tricolon of interrogatives
Metaphor of marriage as a prison
Pleading to be freed from torment
She is trapped in a lavendar marriage

40
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You know what I feel like all the time, like a cat on a hot tin roof

41
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Then jump off it. Jump off

42
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The concert is still going on. Bravo, no necks, bravo

43
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Don’t make a fool of yourself

44
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Shoot, Maggie, you just don’t like children

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Big Mamma, 1

45
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Well, nothing at all wrong with him except a little functional thing called a spastic colon

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Big Mamma, 1

46
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It took both doctors to haul me back to my feet

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Big Mamma, 1

47
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Well, fair or not fair, I want to ask you one question. Do you make Brick happy in bed?

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Big Mamma, 1

48
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Who are you? I’m Maggie the cat

49
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Our sex life didn’t just peter off in the usual way. It was cut short, long before the usual time to

50
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Look, Brick, how high my body stay on me

51
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I’m not that common

52
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I may sometime cheat on you with someone cause you’re so insultingly eager for me to

53
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I’d be relieved to know that you find yourself a lover

54
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It’s malignant and it’s terminal

55
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Nobody says you’re dying, you’ve got to fool them

56
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This plan’s afoot to impress him

57
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I’m genuinely fond of that old man

58
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Big daddy is what he is

59
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The biggest and finest plantation in the delta

60
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Two people in the same boat have got to take care of each other

61
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You’ve got to be old with money, cause to be old and without it is just awful

62
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Well now I’m dressed, all dressed, nothing else for me to do. I’m dressed, all dressed. Nothing else for me to do

63
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A fatal error telling you that thing about Skipper

64
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You got to shut up about Skipper

65
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You’re fooling with something that no one ought to fool with

66
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Skipper and I made love if love is what you call it, because it made us both feel a bit closer to you

67
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You asked too goddamn much of the people that love you, you superior creature

68
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Life has got to be allowed to continue, even after the dream of life is all over

69
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Maggie, you want me to hit you with this crutch. Don’t you know I could kill you with this crutch

70
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I had one good true thing in this life, and you are naming it dirty

71
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I’m naming it so damn clean that it killed poor skipper

72
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From that moment on Skipper was nothing but a receptacle for liquor and drugs

73
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Born poor, raised poor, expect to die poor

74
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Maggie the cat is alive. I am alive, I am alive, I am alive

75
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You’re jealous, you’re just jealous because you can’t have babies

76
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How in hell on earth do you imagine that you’re going to have a child by a man that can’t stand you?

77
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That is problem I am going to have to work out

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