Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Read the Tennessee William's play for class. First time reading Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, for me, so I decided to jot down some lines I particularly liked.

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MARGARET: Living with someone you love can be lonelier -- than living entirely alone! -- if the one that y'love doesn't love you....
I, 177-178

BIG DADDY: ...I've lived with mendacity! -- Why can't you live with it? Hell, you got to live with it, there's nothing else to live with except mendacity, is there?
BRICK (lifting his glass): This! --Liquor...
BIG DADDY: That's not living, that's dodging away from life.
BRICK: I want to dodge away from it.
BIG DADDY: Then why don't you kill yourself, man?
BRICK: I like to drink...
~II, 694-702

BRICK: A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.
BIG DADDY: Believing what?
BRICK: Believing....
BIG DADDY: Believing what?
BRICK (stubbornly evasive): Believing....
~II, 746-751

BRICK: Mendacity is a system we live in. Liquor is the one way out an' death's the other....
~II, 965-966

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