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A Streetcar Named Desire
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"A Streetcar Named Desire" Quotes

"A Streetcar Named Desire" follows the unraveling of Blanche DuBois as she struggles with her past and clashes with her sister's brutish husband in a sweltering New Orleans setting.

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I don't want realism. I want magic!

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realismmagic

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

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Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped in your hands - and who knows what to do with it?

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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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I don't want realism any more.

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I never met a woman that didn't know if she was good-looking or not without being told, and some of them give themselves credit for more than they've got.

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I guess it is just that I have – old-fashioned ideals!

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I can’t do it! I can’t do it!

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I don't tell truth, I tell what ought to be truth.

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There's a picture in my mind of a place. Even when I was little, and couldn't even know what it meant, I used to dream of it.

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