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“Margaret: Oh you weak people, you weak, beautiful people! - who give up. What you want is someone to [she turns out the rose-silk lamp] take hold of you. Gently, gently, with love! And I do love you, Brick, I do!
Brick [smiling with charming sadness]: Wouldn't it be funny if that was true?”
― Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Brick [smiling with charming sadness]: Wouldn't it be funny if that was true?”
― Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
“What's that smell in this room? Didn't you notice it, Brick? Didn't you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room? There ain't nothin' more powerful than the odor of mendacity. You can smell it. It smells like death.
—Big Daddy”
― Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
—Big Daddy”
― Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
“My father hated me chiefly because I was revolting but also because I was expensive.”
― The Naked Civil Servant
― The Naked Civil Servant
“Our home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa's doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls.”
― A Doll's House
― A Doll's House
“Well, they swim into a hole where there's a lot of bananas. They're very ordinary-looking fish when they swim in. But once they get in, they behave like pigs. Why, I've known some bananafish to swim into a banana hole and eat as many as seventy-eight bananas." He edged the float and its passenger a foot closer to the horizon. "Naturally, after that they're so fat they can't get out of the hole again. Can't fit through the door.”
― Nine Stories
― Nine Stories
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