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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

 Tennessee Williams
 

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You look so cool, so cool, so enviably cool.
 
 
 
"You told me! I told you!"
 
 
 
She had a naked child with her, a little naked girl, barely able to toddle, and after a while she set this child on the ground and give her a push and whispered something to her. This child come toward me, barely able t'walk, come toddling up to me and—Jesus, it makes you sick t'remember a thing like this! It stuck out its hand and tried to unbutton my trousers!
 
 
 
You been passing the buck. This disgust with mendacity is disgust with yourself. You!—you dug the grave of your friend and kicked him in it!—before you'd face the truth with him!
 
 
 
Yep, they're no-neck monsters, all no-neck people are monsters
 
 
 
 
 
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"You look tired"
Translation: "You look absolutely horrible."
 
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James pulls the old mom's-voice-playing-on-a-VHS trick
And Dan can't believe Bella falls for it
 
 
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