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1. 'When a man's partner is killed, he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it.'
2. 'I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy, you can only punish. And I warn you, that a wicked law, like cholera, destroys everyone it touches, its upholders as well as its defiers.'
3. 'When a man's mother dies and he gets to thinkin' about her funeral and paying' respects, before he knows it his mind ain't right and he's got rabbit in his blood and runs. We're keepin' you off the road for awhile.'
4. 'You're going to stay right here and help me beat this killing if I have to call your Chief back and remind him what he ordered you to do. But I won't have to do that because you're just so smart, so much brighter than all the rest of us poor stupid white men, you're going to stay just to show us. Your head's so big you could never live with yourself unless you put us all to shame. Virgil, you going to pass up a chance like that?'
5. 'Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble player, the fastest runner, the big league ballplayers, the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and do not tolerate a loser.'
6. 'Do you always answer a question with a question?'
7. 'You know Terry, I had a pretty good time tonight. You picked me up, got some hard stuff, we saw a hold-up, and then we went to the canal, you got your car stolen. And then I got to watch you getting sick.'
8. 'You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man.'
9. 'They walked, with heads up, without music, or cheering, or any hope of escape from injury or death. It went on and on. Women carry the wounded bodies from the ditch until they dropped from exhaustion. But still it went on. Whatever moral ascendance the West held was lost today.'
10. 'On the page, it looked--nothing; the beginning--simple, almost comical. Just a pulse, bassoon, basset horn, like a rusty squeeze box. And then, suddenly, high above it, an oboe, a single note, hanging there unwavering, until a clarinet took it over, sweetened it into a phrase of such delight. This was no composition by a performing monkey.'
11. 'You know you don't recognize the most significant moments of your life when they happen. You think there'll be other days. I didn't realize that this was the only day.'
12. 'How can you diagnose someone as having obsessive-compulsive disorder and yet criticize him for not making an appointment?'
13. 'Look down there. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you 20,000 pounds for every dot that stopped would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money, or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spend.'
14. 'I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that really feeds the soul day in and day out is the church of baseball.'
15. 'Even a poor tailor is entitled to some happiness!'
16. 'The defendant sold pennies for seventeen dollars and ninety-nine cents.'
17. 'Look, the super models are beautiful girls, Will. A beautiful girl can make you dizzy, like you've been drinking Jack and Coke all morning. She can make you feel high, full of the single greatest commodity known to man--promise, the promise of a better day, the promise of a new tomorrow. This particular aura can be found in the gait of a beautiful girl, in her smile, and in her soul, in the way she makes every rotten little thing about life seem like it's going to be OK. The super models, Willy, that's all they are, bottled promise, hope dancing in stilettoed heels.'
18. 'He's the only person I know who feels better when he's sick.'
19. 'I've got it; the pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle, and the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true, right?'
'Right, but there's been a change. They broke the chalice from the palace, and replaced it with a flagon with a figure of a dragon.'
'Did you put the pellet with the poison in the vessel with the pestle?'
'No, the pellet with the poison's in the flagon with a dragon; the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.'
20. 'When Chekhov saw the coming winter, he saw a winter cold and dark and bereft of hope. Yet we know today that winter is yet just another step in the cycle of life. Standing here among the people of Punxsutawney, and basking in the warmth of their hearths and hearts, I couldn't imagine a better fate than a long and lustrous winter.'
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chessart
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