Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)

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

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Turn that off! I won't be looked at in this merciless glare!

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Show me a person who hasn't known any sorrow and I'll show you a superficial.

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I don't want realism.... I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic!... I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth.

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-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table.

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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. "In the time of your life—live!" That time is short and it doesn't return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.

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Blanche: I don't want realism.
Mitch: Naw, I guess not.
Blanche: I'll tell you what I want. Magic!

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Stella: And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby.. [she smiles to herself] Blanche: I guess that is what is meant by being in love..

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The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die—with my hand in the hand of some nice looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch. "Poor lady," they'll say, "The quinine did her no good. That unwashed grape has transported her soul to heaven.

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I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

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