Ideas/Metaphors List (Raw, 2/2)

Pg. 85 Steve "That rutting hunk!"Pg. 86 Blanche “Aries people are forceul and dynamic. They dote on noise! They love to bang things around!” Blanche: Goat, VirgoPg. 89 Blanche: “When people are soft — soft people have got to shimmer and glow — they’ve got to put on soft colors,the colors of butterfly wings, and put a — papaer lantern over the light… It isn’t enough to be soft. You’ve got to besoft and attractive.Pg. 91 Blanche “And men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on ther other hand me lose interest quickly. Especiallywhen the girl is over — thirty. They think a girl over thirty ought to — the vulgar term is — “put out.””Pg. 95 Blanche “Prince out of the Arabian Nights” Blanche “honey lamb” Blanche “Rosen Kavalier”Pg. 96 Blanche “Even the hot tamale man has deserted the streetm and he hags on till the end.”Pg. 97 Blanche “The one (law of nature) that says the lady ust entertain the gentleman —  or no dice!” Blanche “I’m looking for the Pleiades, the Seven Sisters, but these girls are not out tonight. Oh, yes they are,there they are! God bless them! All in a bunch going home from their little bridge party.”Pg. 98 Blanche “But, honey, you know know as well as I do that a single girl, a girl alone in the world, has got to keep afirm hold on her emotions or she’ll be lost!”Pg. 99 Blanche “We are going to pretend that we are sitting in a little artists’ cafe on the Left Bank in Paris.”Pg. 101 Mitch “A man with a heavy build has got to be careful of what he puts on him so he don’t look too clumsy.”Pg. 106 Blanche “THat sort of commonness is unnecessary.”Pg. 108 Blanche “It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that’show it struck the world of me.”Pg. 109 Blanche “And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one momentsince has there been any light that;s stronger than this — kitchen — candle…”Pg. 110 Blanche “Sometimes — there’s God —  so quickly!”Pg. 112 Stanley “But now the cat’s out o the bag!”Pg. 113 Stanley “Same canary-bird, huh!” Stanley “Blanche is no lily”Pg. 114 Blanche “It’s a Barnum and Bailey wold, Just as phoney as it can be– But it wouldn’t be make-believe If you believed in me!” Blanche “Without your love, It’s a honky-tonk parade! Without your love, It’s a melody played In a penny arcade.”Pg. 115 Stanley “Out-of-bounds.”Pg. 119 Stanley “but he’s not going to jump in a tank with a school of sharks.”Pg. 123 Blanche “Parot”Pg. 124 Stanley “Hughey Long ‘Every Man is a King'”Pg. 126 Blanche “Oh, I hope candles are going to glow in his life and I hope that his eyes are going be like candles, liketwo blue candles lighted in a white cake!” Stanley “But what I am is one hudnred percent American, born and raised in the greatest country on earth and proudas hell of it, so don’t ever call me a Polack.”Pg. 133 Mitch “He says you been lapping it up all summer like a wild-cat.”Pg. 136 Blanche “I stayed at a hotel called The Tarantula Arms!”Pg. 137 Blanche “My youth was suddenly gone up the water-sput” Blanche “acleft in the rock of the world that I could hide in!” Blanche “Kiefaber, Stanley and Shaw have tied an old tin can to the tail of the kite.”Pg. 138 Blanche “Crumble and fade and — regrets — recriminations… ‘If you’d done this, it wouldn’t’ve cost me that!'” Blanche “Legacies! Huh.. And other things such as bloodstained pillow-slips — ‘Her linen needs changing’ — ‘YesMother. But couldn’t we get a colored girl to do it?’ No, we couldn’t of course. Everything gone but the –” Blanche “Death — I used to sit here and she used to sit over there and death was as close as you are… We didn’tdare eveb adnut we had ever heard of it!” Blanche “The opposite is desire.”Pg. 141 Blanche “How about taking a swim, a moonlight swim at the old rock-quarry? If anyone’s sober enough to drive a car!Ha-ha! Best way in the world to stop your head buzzing! Only you’ve got to be careful to dive where the deep pool is — ifyou hit a rock and you don’t come up till tomorrow…”Pg. 143 Blanche “It came like a bolt from the blue!”Pg. 144 Stanley “Shall we bury te hatchet and make it a loving-cup?”Pg. 145 Blanche “Having great wealth sometimes makes people lonely!” Blanche “A cultivated woman, a woman of intelligence and breeding, can enrich a man’s life — immeasureably!” Blanche “Physical beauty is passing. A transitory possession, But beauty of the mind and richness of the spirit andtendernesss of the heart — and I have all of those things — aren’t taken away!”Pg. 146 Blanche “Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable.”Pg. 147 Stanley “Egypt and Queen of Nile.”Pg. 152 Stanley “Luck is believing you’re lucky.” Stanley “To hold front position in this rat-race you’ve got to believe you are lucky.”Pg. 153 Eunice “I always did say that men are callous things with no feelings, but this does beat anything. Making pigs ofyourselves.”Pg. 154 Eunice “No matter what happens, you’ve got to keep on going.”Pg. 158 Blanche “These cathedral bells —  they’re the only clean thing in the Quarter.” Blanche “I shall die of eating an unwashed grape on day out on the ocean.” Blanche “And I’ll be buried at sea sewn up in a clean white sack and dropped overboard —  at noon — in the blazeof summer — and into and ocean as blue as my first lovers’ eyes!”Pg. 166 Steve “This game is seven-card stud.”

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  1. I cannot seem to have this formatted correctly. But I have a doc file that contains everything if anyone needs it.

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