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Macbeth And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,  The instruments of darkness tell us truths,  Win us with honest trifles, to betray's  In deepest consequence.   --Banquo, Act I, scene iii  If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me. --Macbeth, Act I, scene iii There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. --Duncan, Act I, scene iv   Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature; <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">It is too full o' the milk of human kindness <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Art not without ambition; but without <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">The illness should attend it. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: right;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">--Lady Macbeth, Act I, scene v <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">unsex me here, <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And fill me from the crown to the toe, top-full <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Of direst cruelty; make thick my blood, <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">--Lady Macbeth, Act I, scene v  <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Look like the innocent flower, <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">But be the serpent under it. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: right;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">--Lady Macbeth, Act I, scene v <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I have given suck, and know <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I would, while it was smiling in my face, <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">As you have done to this. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: right;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">--Lady Macbeth, Act I, scene vii <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">am in blood <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Returning were as tedious as go o'er. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: right;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">--Macbeth, Act III, scene iv <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">And then is heard no more. It is a tale <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Signifying nothing. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: right;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">--Macbeth, Act V, scene v <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> A doll’s house <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;">"Is that my little lark, twittering out there?...When did my squirrel get home?" <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;">wouldn't believe how much it costs a man when he's got a little song-bird like you!"  <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;">"An atmosphere of lies like that infects and poisons the whole life of a home. In a house like that, every breath that the children take is filled with the germs of evil."  <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;">"Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother."   <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;">"Nora, darling, you're dancing as if your life depended on it!"   <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;">"One can't have anything in this life without paying for it."   <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;">"Do you know, Nora, I have often wished that you might be threatened by some great danger, so that I might risk my life's blood, and everything, for your sake."   <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;">"From this moment happiness is not the question; all that concerns us is to save the remains, the fragments, the appearance." <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;">“I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa's doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls.” <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;">I have another duty equally sacred ... My duty to myself."  <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;">    <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;">    <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;">    <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;">Street car   <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 140%;">[//first lines//]  [|Share this quote]    <span style="background: white; display: block; line-height: 130%; margin: 8.15pt 0in; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 130%;">
 * [|A Sailor]**: Can I help you, ma'am?
 * [|Blanche DuBois]**: Why, they told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemetery and ride six blocks and get off at Elysian Fields.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 140%;">[//last lines//] <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">[|Blanche DuBois] **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">: Is there something wrong with me? **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">[|Blanche DuBois] **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">: Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable, and the one thing of which I have never,ever been guilty of. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">[|Stella] **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">: He smashed all the lightbulbs with the heel of my slipper. **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">[|Blanche DuBois] **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">: I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">[|Blanche DuBois] **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">: Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">[|Blanche DuBois] **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">: I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is 50% illusion. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">[|Blanche DuBois] **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">: I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth. **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">[|Mitch] **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">: Poker should not be played in a house with women. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">[|Stanley Kowalski] **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">: I am not a Pollack. People from Poland are Poles. They are not Pollacks. But what I am is one hundred percent American. I'm born and raised in the greatest country on this earth and I'm proud of it. And don't you ever call me a Pollack. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">[|Mitch] **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">: Oh I don't mind you being older than what I thought. But all the rest of it. That pitch about your ideals being so old-fashioned and all the malarkey that you've been dishin' out all summer. Oh, I knew you weren't sixteen anymore. But I was fool enough to believe you was straight."
 * [|Stanley Kowalski]**: Stella! Come on, Stella!
 * [|Stella]**: I'm not going back in there again, not this time, never going back, never.
 * [|Stanley Kowalski]**: Hey, Stella! Hey, Stellaaa!
 * [|Blanche DuBois]**: And you let him? Didn't run, didn't scream?
 * [|Stella]**: Actually, I was sorta thrilled by it.