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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

“Then he went over and sat down on the unoccupied twin bed, looked at the girl, aimed the pistol, and fired a bullet through his right temple.”
― Nine Stories
― Nine Stories

“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

“When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.”
― A Very Easy Death
― A Very Easy Death

“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
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