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Soft, and to the Left

There are plagues everywhere. There is sickness and disease that is everywhere. Everyone tries to hide from these things, the darkness and shadows. It is just a matter of time until it finds you. I know that. I cannot outrun it, I cannot hide from it, there is nowhere to go. It is my wish to embrace it. To be alone in the middle of the crowd. I know this is all an illusion, a dream. It must come to an end. Nothing too good lasts too long. I can see the hope in everyone’s faces. I know they’re all searching for something, they’re all chasing a great dream, each of them wants to better themselves. They’re all looking for answers. What they don’t realize is that they have found it already, they have found it in one another. And as always, the world outside is waiting for us. Waiting patiently to take us away.

Harmony Korine, Avi Korine
Mister Lonely (2007)

Will She Love Me?

Love and hate are horns on the same goat.

The Vikings (1958)

Dialectic

Composer: No! No minor 7th there!

Guitar Player: It's more emergent. Less eruptive.

Composer: It's offensive in that soundplane!

George Wells (screenwriter)

Where The Boys Are (1960)

Fair Enough

I have merited the universal hatred of the society of my time, and I would have been annoyed to have any other merits in the eyes of such a society.

Guy Debord
filmmaker

Yeah, I Know

I'm not even close to the guy I thought I'd end up being... and it kinda blows, you know?

Tommy (Matt Dillon)
Beautiful Girls (1996)
Scott Rosenberg, writer

Youth

Leland: You still eating?
Kane: I'm still hungry.

Orson Welles
Citizen Kane (1941)

Kindred Spirit

Mrs Atwater: Henry is forever cataloging his library.
Mr Kentley: Oh now, Aletha, occasionally I even read one of my books.

Hume Cronyn, Arthur Laurents, Ben Hecht, screenwriters
Rope (1948)

It Tolls For Thee

In my whole life, I never had a woman so much in love with me as Ingrid was. The day after the picture ended, I couldn't get her on the phone.

Gary Cooper, on Ingrid Bergman re For Whom The Bell Tolls (1943)

Puerto Rican Women Can Philosophize

Gloria: Winning and losing is actually a big organic globule from which one extracts what one needs.
Billy: I am so fucked.

Ron Shelton, screenwriter
White Men Can't Jump (1992)

I Wouldn't Either

Psychologist: Now this is really quite simple. I'm going to say one word and then I want you to come back at me as fast as you can with whatever word comes to your mind. For instance, if I were to say "happiness", you might say "children".
Wladislaw: I wouldn't say that.

Nunnally Johnson and Lukas Heller, screenwriters
The Dirty Dozen (1967)