Sterling Silver Dialogue #24
Sterling Silver Dialogue From The Movies:
Do you know where they're from?
“All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious."
(response) “So do martinis.”
“So you’re going to break this marriage up. Have you decided yet how you’re going to do it? Are you going to do it with an axe?!”
“You want [to see] me, Pa?”
(response) “Before you was born I did.”
"I've never forgotten you. You were even in my dreams. You saved me from growing old, dull and used up. My life was so empty. I felt so alone. But I kept thinking: I've no right to be sad. I'm happy. Someone loved me."
“I came to New York from upstate. I was gonna be a dancer. I was a brunette. Started on my toes and wound up on my heels.”
“It was a hot afternoon, and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along that street. How could I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?”
"Sister, I've known some pretty hard cases in my time; you make 'em all look like putty. You're not talking about a sack of gumdrops that's gonna be smashed - you're talking about a dame's life! You may think it's a funny idea for a woman with a kid to stop a bullet for you, only I'm not laughing!"
“Bick, you shoulda shot that fella a long time ago. Now he's too rich to kill.”
“All I want is to enter my house justified.”
"Somewhere in here I was born .. and there I died. It was only a moment for you, you took no notice."
“As you were leaving the room, you turned at the door, didn't you? And you said, ‘For a moment, I thought...’ What did you think? What did you think? Did you think that Dr. Jekyll was falling in love with you? You, with your cheap little dreams? Or did you think, perhaps - that in him, you saw a bit of me, Hyde?”
“Yes, I can be very cruel. I have been taught by masters.”
"It's human to lie. Most of the time we can't even be honest with ourselves.”
“Now it isn't that I don't like you, Susan, because, after all, in moments of quiet, I'm strangely drawn toward you, but - well, there haven't been any quiet moments.”
“Your husband keeps lousy company Mrs. Sampson… as bad as there is in L.A. And that’s as bad as there is.”
“… but what the hell, a hole is a hole is a hole as they say.”
"Ya know something Verna, if I turned my back long enough for Big Ed to put a hole in it, there'd be a hole in it."
“I’m funny how? I mean funny like I’m a clown… I amuse you?”
“When Man entered the atomic age, he opened a door into a new world. What we'll eventually find in that new world, nobody can predict.”
“It’s a hard world for little things.”
“A strange calm possessed me. I thought more clearly than I had ever thought before - as if my mind were bathed in brilliant light. I recognised that part of my illness was rooted in hunger, and I remembered the food on the shelf, the cake thredded with spider web. I no longer felt hatred for the spider. Like myself it struggled blindly for the means to live.”
Answers to Sterling Silver Dialogue #24 are here.