A Streetcar Named Desire

(43 votes)   Blanche DuBois: 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.


A Streetcar Named Desire 1951

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(112 votes)   Blanche DuBois: I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is 50% illusion.


A Streetcar Named Desire 1951

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(103 votes)   Stella: But there are things that happen, between a man and a woman, in the dark, that sorta make everything else seem unimportant
Blanche: What you are talking about is brutal desire. Just desire. The name of that rattletrap streetcar that bangs through the Quarter, up one old narrow street and down another.
Stella: Haven't you ever ridden that streetcar?
Blanche: It brought me here, where I'm not wanted, and where I'm ashamed to be.


A Streetcar Named Desire (TV) 1995

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(99 votes)   Blanche: They told me to take a streetcar named 'Desire',transfer to one called 'Cemetery',ride six blocks and get off,at Elysian Fields


A Streetcar Named Desire (TV) 1995

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(97 votes)   Blanche DuBois: Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.


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(96 votes)   Stanley Kowalski: Hey, toots! Canary bird, will you get out of the bathroom!
[pounds on the door]


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(95 votes)   Stanley Kowalski: Be comfortable. That's my motto up where I come from. You gonna shack up here? Well, I guess I'm gonna strike you as being the unrefined type, huh?


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(87 votes)   Blanche DuBois: Oh, Stanley! What sign were you born under?
Stanley Kowalski: What sign?
Blanche DuBois: Astrological sign. I'll bet you were born under Aries. Aries people are forceful, dynamic, they dote on noise. They love to bang things around.
Stella: Stanley was born just five minutes after Christmas.
Blanche DuBois: Capricorn - the goat!
[long silence follows as Stanley stares at Blanche]


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(85 votes)   Blanche DuBois: 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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(83 votes)   Mitch: Oh I don't mind you being older than what I thought. But all the rest of it. That pitch about your ideals being so old-fashioned and all the malarkey that you've been dishin' out all summer. Oh, I knew you weren't sixteen anymore. But I was fool enough to believe you was straight.


A Streetcar Named Desire 1951

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(82 votes)   Blanche DuBois: Is there something wrong with me?


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(75 votes)   Stella: You think you're going bowling now?


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(74 votes)   Stanley Kowalski: She is as famous in Oriel as if she was the President of the United States, only she is not respected by any party.


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(73 votes)   [as Stanley's friends gather to play poker]
Stella: The blind are leading the blind!


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(70 votes)   Stanley Kowalski: I never met a dame yet that didn't know if she was good-looking or not without being told, and there's some of them that give themselves credit for more than they've got.


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