The Golden Girls (TV Series)
Sick and Tired: Part 1 (1989)
Rue McClanahan: Blanche Devereaux
Quotes
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Blanche Devereaux : Well, now I know why Hemingway killed himself. Oh, girls, I have writer's block. It is the worst feeling in the world.
Sophia Petrillo : Try ten days without a bowel movement sometime.
Blanche Devereaux : [ignoring Sophia] You just sit there, hour after hour after hour...
Sophia Petrillo : Tell me about it.
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Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : [talking about her upcoming trip to New York] I'm going just for two days, to see a doctor. I've asked Rose to go with me.
Blanche Devereaux : [offended] Rose? Why her?
Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : She's comforting.
Blanche Devereaux : And I'm not?
Sophia Petrillo : You told me you were having a pedicure when your husband was dyin'.
Blanche Devereaux : Well of course I was, Sophia. It was the third Thursday of the month. If I'd cancelled, that would have been it for July and August, when I'd be wearin' open-toed sandals.
Sophia Petrillo : [mocking] Angel of mercy!
Blanche Devereaux : Well I didn't know he was gonna pick that precise hour to die. How could I know that?
Rose Nylund : Well, he was in a coma.
Blanche Devereaux : Oh, he'd been in a coma for days. The fact is, I happen to be very good with sick people. I was once a candy-stripper.
Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : That's *striper*.