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Stage directions: (Stella) obviously…

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Obviously quite different from her husband

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Stage directions: (Blanche) - her appearance…

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Her appearance is incongruous to this setting

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I, I, I took the blows (scene 1- death monologue)

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I, I, I took the blows in my face and my body

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The grim reaper had… (Scene 1 - death monologue)

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The grim reaper had put up his tent on our doorstep.

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Stage directions - Stanley “animal joy… Implicit…

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“animal joy… Implicit in all his movements and attitudes”

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Life is too full… (Scene 2)

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Life is too full of evasions and ambiguities

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I hurt him the way… (Scene 2)

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I hurt him the way that you would like to hurt me

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Stage directions- scene 3

“…they are men at the peak

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“…they are men at the peak of their physical manhood…”

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(Blanche about Mitch) I thought he had…

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I thought he had a sort of sensitive look

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That one seems-

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That one seems- superior to the others

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Thank you for being so… (Scene 3)

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Thank you for being so kind! I need kindness now. (Foreshadowing)

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I’m not in anything…

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I’m not in anything I want to get out of

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What you are talking about is…

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What you are talking about is brutal desire - just - desire

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I’ve outstayed

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I’ve outstayed my welcome (scene 6)

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I like you to be…

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I like you to be exactly the way that you are. (Ironic)

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It was like you suddenly turned…

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It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light in something that had always been half in shadow

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And then the searchlight which had been turned in the world…

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And then the searchlight which had been turned in the world was turned off again

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…people like you abused her…

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…people like you abused her, and forced her to change (scene 8)

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I pulled you down off them…

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I pulled you down off them columns and how you loved it

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After the death of Allan - the …

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After the death of Allan - the intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty head with

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… I think it was panic, just panic… Hunting…

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… I think it was panic, just panic… Hunting for some protection… In the most- unlikely places

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Deliberate cruelty is not…

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Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable.

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Life has got to go on …

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Life has got to go on. No matter what happens, you’ve got to keep on going

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Whoever you are - I…

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

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