"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.
plays | 128 pages | Published in 2014
Quotes
I don't want realism. I want magic!
Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
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?
I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
I don't want realism any more.
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.
I guess it is just that I have – old-fashioned ideals!
I can’t do it! I can’t do it!
I don't tell truth, I tell what ought to be truth.
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.





