Blanche Quotes

• I don't want realism. I want magic!

  Tennessee Williams

  Magic, Desire, Want

  A Streetcar Named Desire sc. 9 (1947)

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• I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

  Tennessee Williams

  Light, Rude, Naked

  Tennessee Williams (2004). “A Streetcar Named Desire”, p.60, New Directions Publishing

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• And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle.

  Tennessee Williams

  Light, Kitchen, Stronger

  Tennessee Williams (2004). “A Streetcar Named Desire”, p.115, New Directions Publishing

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• I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth. - Blanche Scene II

  Tennessee Williams

  Important, Fifty, Telling The Truth

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• They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!

  Tennessee Williams

  Block, Desire, Fields

  A Streetcar Named Desire sc. 1 (1947)

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• A woman's charm is fifty percent illusion.

  Tennessee Williams

  Women, Fifty, Illusion

  Tennessee Williams (1947). “A streetcar named Desire”, Signet Book

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• And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.

  Tennessee Williams

  Funeral

  Tennessee Williams (2004). “A Streetcar Named Desire”, p.21, New Directions Publishing

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• Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!

  Tennessee Williams

  Hawthorne, Bunch, Reverence

  Tennessee Williams (1953). “A Streetcar Named Desire: Play in Three Acts”, p.39, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.

  Paul Bailey

  Writing, Agents, Artistic

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• The skin of the coward changes color all the time, he can't get a grip on himself, he can't sit still, he squats and rocks, shifting his weight from foot to foot, his heart racing, pounding inside the fellow's ribs, his teeth chattering. He dreads some grisly death. But the skin of a brave soldier never blanches. He's all control. Tense but no great fear.

  Homer

  Fear, Heart, Rocks

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• No one wants to abandon the Israelis. But I think the perception is, and I think it's probably an accurate perception, that the tail is leading the dog - that we are giving the Israelis carte blanche ability to exercise whatever they want to do in their area.

  Michael Scheuer

  Dog, Exercise, Thinking

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• Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois

  Tennessee Williams

  Unforgivable, Cruelty, Dubois

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• I think that if a real princess was lost in this modern world and she could be whatever she wanted, she would be a musician,' Blanche said slowly. 'A violinist, or a harpist. That would be the only place where she could find solace for her lost kingdom.

  Regina Doman

  Real, Princess, Thinking

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• Evil isn't beautiful on its own. You know?' 'Well, good people are sometimes ugly-' Blanche said at last. 'I don't know about that. Not really,' Bear shook his head. 'If the good's there, and you look for it, you'll see it in some way.' 'I think Bear is right,' Rose said decidedly. 'Fairy tales teach you that. No one who's really good ever stays ugly. It's always a disguise.

  Regina Doman

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

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• Stella: And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby.. [she smiles to herself] Blanche: I guess that is what is meant by being in love.

  Tennessee Williams

  Baby, Being In Love, Lap

  Tennessee Williams (2004). “A Streetcar Named Desire”, p.19, New Directions Publishing

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• If [Ho Chi Minh] had had carte blanche over his movement, would the results of the war have been different? That is difficult to say. In some cases - as in 1945 and 1946, he appeared to overestimate the possibility that the United States might decide to recognize his government and the independence of the DRV (although to be fair, from the outset he had warned that Washington might eventually decide to align with the French because of the Cold War).

  William J. Duiker

  War, Government, Independence

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear of God. This the good Queen Blanche did most earnestly by St. Louis, her son: witness her oft-repeated words, "My son, I would sooner see you die than guilty of a mortal sin;" words which sank so deeply into the saintly monarch's heart, that he himself said there was no day on which they did not recur to his mind, and strengthen him in treading God's ways.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Mother, Queens, Pain

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• EMILY's List members are deeply committed to electing pro-choice Democratic women whom we trust to stand up for our rights, treat us honestly, and make us proud. Our candidates fight for us every day. Blanche Lincoln failed to hold up her end of the bargain.

  Ellen Malcolm

  Fighting, Rights, Choices

  "Lincoln's First Ad: 'I Don't Answer To My Party'" by Mike Memoli, www.realclearpolitics.com.

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• Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.

  Marilyn Manson

  Comedian, Get Away, Ability

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• I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, Men, May

  Edmund Burke (2012). “Reflections on the Revolution in France”, p.158, Courier Corporation

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• WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the yet whiter one that separates the word-strewn sheet from the transparent, the written page from the one to be written in the infinite space where the eye turns back to the eye, and the hand to the pen, where all we write is erased, even as you write it. For the book imperceptibly takes shape within the book we will never finish. There is my desert.

  Edmond Jabes

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Love-buds, put before you and within you, whoever you are, Buds to be unfolded on the old terms; If you bring the warmth of the sun to them, they will open, and bring form, color, perfume, to you; If you become the aliment and the wet, they will become flowers, fruits, tall blanches and trees.

  Walt Whitman

  Love, Flower, Color

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.236, St. Martin's Press

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• I was asked, "How did you get pictures that look like this?" It doesn't happen today because now everybody has to have permission. But what you're looking at, is the product of somebody who has been given permission to work with raw materials and not be bothered. These are good examples of having carte blanche.

  Max Vadukul

  Today, Bothered

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You cannot give the vice president the authority to declassify specific information and then turn around and say he can just give carte blanche to an assistant of his to declassify whatever he wants.

  Joe Biden

  Giving, President, Vices

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. February 16, 2006.

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• Love at first sight'some say misnaming Discovery of twinned helplessness Against the huge tug of procreation. But friendship at first sight? This also Catches fiercely at the surprised heart So that the cheek blanches then blushes.

  Robert Graves

  Heart, Sight, Discovery

  Robert Graves (1997). “Complete Poems”

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