Streetcar Quotes Flashcards

1
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“New Orleans is a cosmopolitan city…

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… where there is a relatively warm and easy intermingling of races”

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2
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“He heaves…

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The package at her”.

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3
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“Her appearance is…

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…incongruous to the setting.”

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4
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“There is something about her uncertain manner…

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… and her white clothes that suggests a moth.”

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5
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Eunice a referring to Belle Reve…

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“A great big place with white columns”.

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6
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“Daylight never…

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…exposed so total a ruin.”

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7
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“Animal joy in his being is…

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…implicit in all his movements and attitudes.”

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8
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“His radio, his car everything…

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…that is his that bears the emblem of the gaudy seed bearer”.

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9
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“The perpetual blue…

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…piano around the corner”.

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10
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“Have you ever…

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…heard of the napoleonic code?”

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11
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“Pulls out a fistful…

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…costume jewellery.”

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12
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“A little on…

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… the primitive side I would think”.

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13
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“I like an artist who paints….

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…in strong, bold primary colours”.

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14
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“Poems a dead boy…

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…wrote. I Hutu him the way that you would like to hurt me.”

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15
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“They are men at the..

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…peak of their physical manhood, as coarse and direct as the primary colours.”

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16
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“Stanley gives a…

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…loud whack of his hand on her thigh.”

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17
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“She takes off the blouse…

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…and stands in her pink silk brassier and white shirt in the light through the portieres.”

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18
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“I can’t stand a naked..

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…lightbulb any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.”

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19
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“Stanley stalks fiercely…

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…through the portieres.”

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20
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“Stanley charges..

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…after Stella.”

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21
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“he throws his head back…

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… like a baying hound and bellows his wife’s name”.

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22
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“The low tone..

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…clarinet moans.”

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23
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“Then they came together..

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…in low animal moans”.

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24
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“Her eyes go…

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..blind with tenderness”.

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“Stanley’s always…
…smashed things”.
26
“He snatched off one of my slippers…
…and rushed about the place smashing the light-bulbs with it”.
27
“I am not in anything…
…that I want to get out of”.
28
“The only way to live with…
…such a man is to go to bed with him”.
29
“What you’re talking about is brutal desire…
…just- Desire! - the name of the rattle-trap streetcar that bands through the quarter”.
30
“it brought me here…
…where I am not wanted and where I am ashamed to be”.
31
“Stanley Kowalski - survivor of the…
… Stone Age. Bearing the raw meet home from the kill in the jungle”.
32
“Stanley hesitates…
…licking his lips”.
33
“At each noise..
…Blanche winces slightly”.
34
“Make a little temporary magic…
…in order to pay for - one night’s shelter”.
35
“Men don’t even admit…
…your existence unless they are making love to you”.
36
“Stella pours the coke into the glass…
It foams over and spills. Blanche gives a piercing cry”.
37
“I want to deceive him…
…enough to make him want me”.
38
“I’ve got to be good…
…and keep my hands off children”.
39
“Mitch is bearing an…
…upside statuette of Mae-West”.
40
“Then the searchlight which was…
…turned on in the world was turned off again”.
41
“Get out..
…of the bathroom”.
42
“Spears his fork into the remaining…
…chose and eats it with his fingers”
43
“Every man is…
… a king and I am king around here”.
44
“I pulled you down…
…off them white columns and how you loved it”.
45
“The music is in her…
…mind, she is drinking to escape it”.
46
“He tears the paper…
…lantern off the light-bulb”.
47
“I don’t want realism….
I want magic”.
48
“I don’t tell the truth…
… I tell what ought to be the truth”.
49
“You’re not clean enough…
… to bring into the house with my mother”.
50
“She has decked herself out….
…in a somewhat soled and crumped evening gown”.
51
“She slams the mirror down…
…with such violence that the glass cracks”.
52
“The bottle cap pops off….
…and a geyser of foam shoots out”.
53
“The silk pyjamas I…
…wore on my wedding night”.
54
“Lurid reflections appear…
… on the walls behind Blanche”.
55
“The night is filled with..
… inhuman voices, like cries in a jungle”.
56
“We’ve had this date with each other…
…from the beginning”.
57
“I couldn’t believe…
…her story and go on living with Stanley”.
58
“She cries out…
…as if the lantern was herself”.
59
“I have always been…
…dependent on the kindness of strangers”.
60
“There is something luxurious in….
…her complete surrender to crying now that her sister is gone”
61
“He kneels beside her…
…and his fingers find the opening of her blouse”.