1.
“I’m not young and vulnerable any more.”
Blanche speaking
to Stanley, Scene 2
2. “He acts like an animal, has an animal’s habits!
Eats like one, moves like one, talks like one!
Blanche speaking
about Stanley, Scene 4.
3. “In some kinds of people some tenderer feelings have
had some little beginning! That we have to make grow! And cling
to, and hold as our flag!”
Blanche speaking
to Stella, Scene 4
4. “And men
don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other
hand, men lose interest quickly.”
Blanche speaking
to Stella, Scene 5
5. “And then the searchlight which had been turned on
the world was turned off again and never for one moment since
has there been any light that’s stronger than this—kitchen—candle.”
Blanche speaking
about the effect on her of her husband’s suicide, Scene 6
6. “I don’t want realism. I want magic!”
Blanche speaking
to Mitch, Scene 9
7. “Never inside, I didn’t lie in my heart.”
Blanche speaking
to Mitch, Scene 9
8. “You’re not clean enough to bring in the house
with my mother.”
Mitch speaking to
Blanche, Scene 9
9. “We’ve
had this date with each other from the beginning!”
Stanley speaking
to Blanche as he carries her to the bed, Scene 10
10. “Whoever you are—I have always depended on the
kindness of strangers."
Blanche speaking
to the Doctor, Scene 11
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