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41 " Brick's detachment is at last broken through. His heart is accelerated; his forehead sweat-beaded; his breath becomes more rapid and his voice hoarse. The thing they're discussing, timidly and painfully on the side of Big Daddy, fiercely, violently on Brick's side, is the inadmissible thing that Skipper died to disavow between them. The fact that if it existed it had to be disavowed to "keep face" in the world they lived in, may be at the heart of the "mendacity" that Brick drinks to kill his disgust with. It may be the root of his collapse. Or maybe it is only a single manifestation of it, not even the most important. The bird that I hope to catch in the net of this play is not the solution of one man's psychological problem. I'm trying to catch the true quality of experience in a group of people, that cloudy, flickering, evanescent - fiercely charged! - interplay of live human beings in the thundercloud of a common crisis. Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself. This does not absolve the playwright of his duty to observe and probe as clearly and deeply as he legitimately can: but it should steer him away from "pat" conclusions, facile definitions which make a play just a play, not a snare for the truth of human experience. "
― Tennessee Williams , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
42 " You were a wonderful lover.... Such a wonderful person to go to bed with, and I think mostly because you were really indifferent to it. "
43 " BRICK: Well, they say nature hates a vacuum, Big Daddy.BIG DADDY: That's what they say, but sometimes I think that a vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. "
44 " In some ways I'm no better than the others, in some ways I'm worse because I'm less alive. Maybe it's being alive that makes them lie, and being almost not alive makes me sort of accidentally truthful - I don't know but - anyway - we've been friends... - And being friends is telling each other the truth... "
45 " Tú siempre has tenido ese carácter distante, como si participaras en un juego en el que no te importa demasiado ganar o perder, y ahora has perdido, más que perdido has abandonado el juego, posees ese extraño encanto que normalmente sólo se da en personas muy ancianas o en enfermos desahuciados. El encanto de los derrotados. Pareces tan frío, tan frío, tan envidiablemente frío. "
46 " Desconocer la muerte da tranquilidad. El hombre no goza de esa tranquilidad, es el único ser viviente que sabe que va a morir, y que sabe en qué consiste la muerte. Los otros seres no, y así deberían vivir todos, sin saberlo, sin tener la más remota idea. "
47 " In this way, I destroyed him, by telling him truth that he and his world which he was born and raised in, yours and his world, had told him could not be told? "