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A Streetcar Named Desire and Death of a Salesman quotes
Cards in this deck (23)
- 1STREETCAR: Stella and BlancheSTELLA: "Blanche you saw him at his worst last night."
BLANCHE: "No, I saw him at his best." - 2STREETCAR: Stella"Mr Kowalski is too busy making a pig of himself to think of anything else."
- 3STREETCAR: StanleyHe throws his head like a baying hound and bellows his wife's name: "Stella! Stella, sweetheart!"
- 4STREETCAR: Mitch"Poker should not be played in a house with women."
- 5STREETCAR: Blanche"After all, a woman's charm is fifty percent illusion."
- 6STREETCAR: Blanche"I don't want realism. I want magic!"
- 7STREETCAR: Blanche"The first time I laid eyes on [Stanley], I thought to myself, that man is my executioner! That man will destroy me!"
- 8STREETCAR: Blanche"Young, young, young man! Has anyone ever told you that you look like a young prince out of the Arabian Nights?"
- 9STREETCAR: Blanche"... and funerals are pretty compared to deaths. Funerals are quiet but death - not always."
- 10STREETCAR: Blanche"Don't turn the light on!"
- 11STREETCAR: Blanche"They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and then transfer, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries."
- 12DOAS: Happy"Dad is never so happy as when he's looking forward to something!"
- 13DOAS: Biff"I am not a leader of men Willy, and neither are you."
- 14DOAS: Biff"Will you take your phony dream and burn it before something happens?"
- 15DOAS: Willy"Bigger than Uncle Charley! Because Charley is not - liked. He's liked, but he''s not - well liked."
- 16DOAS: Willy"What the hell are you offering me a job for? // Don't insult me."
- 17DOAS: Charley"Willy, when are you going to grow up?"
- 18DOAS: Willy"You can't see nothing out here! They boxed in the whole god damn neighbourhood"
- 19DOAS: Willy"I don't know the reason for it, but they just pass me by. I'm not noticed."
- 20DOAS: Willy"... because personality always wins the day."
- 21DOAS: Willy"They don't need me in New York. I'm the New England man. I'm vital in New England."
- 22DOAS: Willy"Chevrolet, Linda, the greatest car ever built. // That goddamn Chevrolet, they ought to prohibit the manufacture of that car."
- 23DOAS: Willy"Business is bad, it's murderous. But not for me, of course."
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