streetcar - interior and exterior appearances Flashcards
‘They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and transfer to one called Cemeteries, and ride six blocks and get off at—Elysian Fields!’ - Blanche
‘Stella, oh, Stella, Stella! Stella for Star!’ - Blanche
‘Since earliest manhood the center of [Stanley’s] life has been pleasure with women, the giving and taking of it, not with weak indulgence, dependently, but with the power and pride of a richly feathered male bird among hens.’
‘I never met a woman that didn’t know if she was good-looking or not without being told, and some of them give themselves credit for more than they’ve got.’ - Stanley
‘The kitchen now suggests that sort of lurid nocturnal brilliance, the raw colors of childhood’s spectrum.’
‘I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.’ - Blanche
‘There are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark–that sort of make everything else seem–unimportant.’ - Stella
‘Young man! Young, young, young man! Has anyone ever told you that you look like a young Prince out of the Arabian Nights?’ - Blanche
‘It’s only a paper moon, Just as phony as it can be–But it wouldn’t be make-believe If you believed in me!’ - Blanche
‘I told you already I don’t want none of his liquor and I mean it. You ought to lay off his liquor. He says you’ve been lapping it up all summer like a wild-cat!’ - Mitch
‘I don’t want realism. I want magic!’ - Blanche
‘You left nothing here but spilt talcum and old empty perfume bottles–unless it’s the paper lantern you want to take with you. You want the lantern?’ - Stanley
‘Whoever you are—I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.’ - Blanche