The trouble with Dame Blanche was that she couldn't put on
her act any more in Laurel! They got wised up after two or three
dates with her and then they quit, and she goes on to another,
the same old line, same old act, same old hooey! But the town
was too small for this to go on forever! And as time went by
she became a town character. Regarded as not just different
but downright loco-nuts.
A Streetcar Named Desire
Stanley to Blanche and Stella, Scene 7. |
Her future is mapped out for her.
A Streetcar Named Desire
Stanley to Stella, about Blanche, Scene
7. |
That's how I'll clear the table!
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Stanley hurling a plate to the floor, Scene
8. |
Don't you ever talk that way to me. "Pig — Polack
— disgusting — vulgar — greasy!" —
them kind of words have been on your tongue and your sister's
too much around here. What do you think you are, a pair of queens?
Remember what Huey Long said — "Every man's a King!!
And I am the king around here, so don't forget it!
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Stanley to Stella, seizing her by the arm,
Scene 8. |
I am not a Polack. People from Poland are Poles, not Polacks.
But what I am is a one hundred percent American, born and raised
in the greatest country on earth and proud as hell of it, so
don't ever call me a Polack.
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Stanley snaps at Blanche, over her derogatory
remarks about his Polish ethnicity and her bigotry, Scene 8. |
When we first met, me and you, you thought I was common. How
right you was, baby. I was common as dirt. You showed me the
snapshot of the place with the columns. I pulled you down off
them columns and how you loved it, having them colored lights
going! And wasn't we happy together, wasn't it all okay till
she showed here? And wasn't we happy together? Wasn't it all
okay till she showed here, hoity-toity, describin' me like a
ape?
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Stanley to Stella, Scene 8. |
It's dark in here....I don't think I ever seen you in the
light....What it means is I've never had a real good look at
you.
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Mitch to Blanche, Scene 9. |
I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try
to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell
truths. I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful,
then let me be damned for it!
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Blanche to Mitch, Scene 9. |
Yes, I had many intimacies with strangers....So I came here.
There was nowhere else I could go. I was played out....and I
met you. You said you needed somebody. Well, I needed somebody,
too. I thanked God for you, because you seemed to be gentle
— a cleft in the rock of the world that I could hide in!
A Streetcar Named Desire
Blanche to Mitch, Scene 9. |
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but
the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
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Blanche queries Mitch, Scene 9. |
MITCH: You lied to me, Blanche.
BLANCHE: Don't say I lied to you...
MITCH: Lies! Lies, inside and out, all lies.
BLANCHE: Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart.
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Scene 9. |
Death ... the opposite is desire.
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Blanche, Scene 9. |
BLANCHE: Marry me, Mitch.
MITCH: No, I don't think I want to marry you anymore... No,
you're not clean enough to bring into the house with my mother.
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Scene 9. |
But some things are not forgivable. Deliberate cruelty is
not forgivable! It is the one unforgivable thing, in my opinion,
and the one thing of which I have never, never been guilty.
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Blanche to Stanley, Scene 10. |
I've been on to you from the start! Not once did you pull
any wool over this boy's eyes! You come in here and sprinkle
the place with powder and spray perfume and cover the light
bulb with a paper lantern, and lo and behold the place has turned
into Egypt and you are the Queen of the Nile! Sitting on your
throne and swilling down my liquor!
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Stanley to Blanche, Scene 10. |
We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning!
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Stanley speaking to Blanche as he carries
her to the bed, Scene 10. |
You know what luck is? Luck is believing you're lucky...To
hold a front position in this rat-race you're got to believe
you are lucky.
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Stanley, to fellow poker player Pablo,
Scene 11. |
Whoever you are — I have always depended on the kindness
of strangers.
A Streetcar Named Desire
Blanche to the doctor, her final statement
in the play, Scene 11. |
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