How to Steal a Million (1966)

Charles Bonnet: This is not ordinary dirt. It is van Gogh dirt! I mean dirt from his own neighborhood. I scraped it myself off these old 19th-century canvases... It took me weeks. A nice touch of authenticity, don't you think? I doubt if van Gogh himself would've gone to such pains with his works.
Nicole Bonnet: He didn't have to. He was van Gogh.
Charles Bonnet: But you know that in his whole lifetime, he only sold one painting. Whereas I, in loving memory of his great tragic genius... have already sold two.

Charles Bonnet: The basic trouble with you is that you're honest. And I don't say that to hurt your feelings.

Nicole Bonnet: For a burglar, you're not very brave, are you?
Simon Dermott: I'm a society burglar. I don't expect people to rush about shooting me.

Simon Dermott: That hurt!
Nicole Bonnet: Don't be such a baby. It's only a flesh wound.
Simon Dermott: It happens to be my flesh.
Nicole Bonnet: You have to expect some occupational hazards. You broke in here to steal!
Simon Dermott: Could we keep personalities out of this conversation?

Simon Dermott: I have a funny feeling, believe me, it's rare in my profession... that you're completely trustworthy. Just one more tiny favor: Like an idiot, I forgot to wear gloves. I may have left fingerprints. Be an angel. Before you go to bed... give the frame of the painting a little wipe with a clean cloth, okay?
Nicole Bonnet: Certainly. Anything else? You wouldn't like a forged passport or some counterfeit money or....

Nicole Bonnet: Papa, I caught a burglar. ... It was pitch dark and there he was. Tall, blue eyes, slim, quite good-looking... in a brutal, mean way. Papa, a terrible man! Arrogant, ruthless, no sense of guilt or shame... or anything.

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Charles Bonnet: This tall, good-looking ruffian with blue eyes... he didn't molest you in any way, did he?
Nicole Bonnet: Not much.

Simon Dermott: I want you to take a long last look at the blue sky, the green grass... the trees and the river, all of which I loathe personally... which is why a juicy stretch in a cozy French prison... doesn't bother me at all.

Nicole Bonnet: I'd like to remind you, Mr. Dermott, ours is a business relationship.
Simon Dermott: I am aware of that. I'm also aware of the social gulf between us. You are an aristocrat, and I am a humble burglar... There's the bathroom. Take off your clothes.
Nicole Bonnet: Are we planning the same sort of crime?

Simon Dermott: Comfy?
Nicole Bonnet: I hadn't counted on there being quite so much togetherness.
Simon Dermott: It's the height of the tourist season. Everything was booked. This was the best I could do.

Simon Dermott: ..... That's why.
Nicole Bonnet: I'm so stupid. Explain it to me again.

Nicole Bonnet: Pull yourself together. You're a genius.
Simon Dermott: I know. It's a funny feeling.

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A Parasol and a Hell of an Arm

Young Sheldon 3×6

Georgie: I want to support Mom. And God.
Missy: You're just doing it 'cause Veronica's gonna be there.
Georgie: And who made Veronica?...

Sheldon: I suppose she could drop me off outside. Where are we on me walking through parking lots alone these days?

Missy: You're just begging to get beat up.
Sheldon: I'm more concerned about the biggest bully of all: the Sun.

Peggy: You're gonna learn life's like that... A parade of disappointments.
Georgie: Is that so?
Peggy: Yep. Sooner you give up, the better.
Georgie: When did you give up?
Peggy: June 14, 1945. The man I loved came home from the war with syphilis... Now ask me how I found out.

Pastor Jeff: You must be Cain, because you're not Abel... to hit the target.

Pastor Jeff: Expecting rain, Sheldon?
Sheldon: No. In this context, it's a parasol from the French "para" meaning "defense from" and "sol" meaning "sun."

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Pastor Jeff: Uh, Lord, help George Cooper hit something other than the buffet. Sorry. Trash talk's part of the job.

Pastor Jeff: I am baptized once again!

George: They don't have any baseball teams for girls. Wait a few years, you can play softball.

Meemaw: Relationships are a waste of time. Flying solo is the only way to go.
Georgie: Uh-huh.
Meemaw: Do you think Tarzan was happy with Jane? No way. He was happy swinging through the trees.
Georgie: Uh-huh.
Meemaw: The Statue of Liberty... she's got her book and her torch, and she's good.

Meemaw: The best thing is for you to just forget about this Veronica girl.
Georgie: Uh-huh.
Meemaw: You should be playing the field, just like a bumblebee going from flower to flower.
Georgie: Uh-huh.
Meemaw: And don't get confused aboutall this love nonsense. Your freedom is the only thing that matters.

Sheldon: Just in case, here are some baseball facts that may come in handy. It was invented in the 1830s. The first officially recorded game was in 1846, and that game took place in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Missy: I won't need to know that.
Sheldon: Well, now you do, and you'll never forget it.

Mary: Where are you going?
Meemaw: To be mad at somebody new.

Meemaw: Meemaw has just made a scene. Now is not the time to be scared!

Meemaw: I'm just a girl, but I think that's called a strike.

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Rest in Pieces

American Horror Story. 1984

9×8

Donna: Margaret's probably got that "crazy person" strength, and you're gonna need that kind of strength if you want to be the final girl.
Brooke: Final girl?
Donna: Oh. That's right, you missed the '80s. Every horror movie has a final girl... the one who survives it all and lives to tell the tale. As I see it, that's either you or Margaret.
Brooke: Why can't it be you?
Donna: A black final girl? Sweetheart, they kill folks off with my complexion first.

Stacey Phillips: It's funny, ... back in the '70s, all anyone cared about was Bigfoot and aliens, the Loch Ness Monster, all that Leonard Nimoy In Search of... shit. But the '80s have been all about serial killers, human monsters.

Stacey: Have you been to a high school lately? It's not John Hughes. Kids are doing coke, bringing guns to school. All these clearly gay British musicians pretending to be straight. History's gonna look back at the '80s as the era of bullshit. Honestly, between Iran-Contra, AIDS, that TV show Small Wonder and crack, I'm pretty sure the '80s are gonna be the end of the world as we know it.

Bruce: I don't go in for that New Wave shit. The Eagles, man, that's where I come out. CCR. Bob Seger. It's all about the storytelling, you know?

Margaret: Everyone is still coming. No one is going to miss Kaja-fucking-googoo and their one hit single!

Jonas: It gets better. First time always feels the worst.
Benjamin: I f-f... felt everything. Pain. Fear. The... sudden disconnection with everything.
Jonas: Like you're drifting in space?
Benjamin: Yes!
Jonas: Alone. Forever.
Benjamin: How many times have you died?

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Montana: We can feel fleeting pleasure. We can feel pain, we can feel scared, happy, in love, but... the only feeling that really lasts is a constant longing.
Trevor: For what?
Montana: To be alive. To be dead. To be anything but stuck here.

Trevor: There's nothing back there for me. The '80s are over. People don't even do coke anymore. Eh, fashion is boring. Lots of flannel. And good luck finding an aerobics class.

Trevor: I love you, Montana. You're '80s forever.

Brooke: You don't believe me?
Stacey: Oh, honey, I do. In my experience, truth is often stranger than fiction. I made a good living because of that. But in a way, it doesn't matter, because this is your story told from your point of view, so whatever you say is right is right.

Donna: Truth is not malleable!
Stacey: I work for the Enquirer. My motto is: Never let the facts get in the way of the truth, and never let the truth get in the way of a story that sells.

Xavier: You just turned me into a kabob. I might be dead, but I'm still traumatized.

Donna: This isn't who you are. There's evil inside you, yes. It's in us all, dormant and waiting... It grows in us like a cancer, but only if you feed it what it wants. Our hate and anger.

Brooke: ...And we can both be final girls?

Margaret: I don't know what she told you, but anything is too much.

Trevor: I was thinking... which generally gets me into trouble...

Lavinia: The past... it will haunt you forever if you let it.

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Help Is Other People

The Good Place 4×7

Chapter 46

Tahani: Speaking of which, the theme is "One Year Down, Infinity to Go." Dress is London black tie. That means Knightsbridge black tie, not Kensington or, heaven forbid, West Brompton. Can you imagine?

Eleanor: Janet, any chance you could get a look inside that obelisk? Check that magic scoreboard?
Janet: There is a chance, yes. About 1 in 970 trillion. Let's give her a whirl... It did not work.

Eleanor: You know? I would kill for an "oops, my bad." Who's a girl gotta fork to get an "oops, my bad"?

Chidi: Well, I swore I wouldn't tell, and keeping your word is a central tenet of deontological ethics.

Simone: I don't know. Maybe this isn't the Good Place. Maybe it's a test. My best guess, it's some kind of experiment. We're being observed in a closed environment.
Tahani: Simone, look at this logically. We are in paradise. There's fresh air, mountains, Janet. And yes, some of us are under 5'10"... but other than that, it is literally perfect here.

Eleanor: New plan: ... We do nothing. We hope that our early successes make up for the embarrassing mess we've become. Like Facebook or America.

Michael: Do you trust me?
Eleanor: Yeah. Fork it. Whatever it is, I'm in.
Jason: I'm always down for forking it.

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Jason: In football, trying to run out the clock and hoping for the best never works. It's called "prevent defense." You don't take any chances and just try and hang on to your lead. But prevent defense just prevents you from winning. It's always better to try something.
Tahani: Jason, that was... coherent.
Jason: Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to.

Eleanor: ...Brent sucks. Brent is the opposite of a box of doughnuts.
Jason: Toilet full of broccoli.

Jason: Basically it's a Hail Mary. It's risky, but if we complete it, we win the game.
Tahani: That was two good analogies in a row. I'm now worried that he's a demon in a Jason suit.

Chidi: Well, if it is hell, I know why I'm here. Almond milk. I drank so much of it despite the negative environmental impacts.

Michael: What else can we try? We've already blown everything up. We can't blow it up again.
Jason: If there's one thing I know in this world, it's that you can always blow up the same thing twice.

Chidi: I have this stupid moral code that forces me to help everyone. But you have never helped anyone because you. Don't care. About other people. Which is the bare minimum that a person has to do, just care a little about the other people around you, and you can't do it.

Eleanor: Well, you know what they say. It's zero o'clock in the sky somewhere.

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The Dinner and the Date

This Is Us 4×7

Deja: Oh, my God. Y'all and these cheesesteaks. I swear, it's only bread and meat.

Jack: Rebecca Pearson, I've known you for 19 years. Your "okay" is never just "okay".

Randall: Uh, V-neck or crew?
Beth: Uh, feels like a V-neck kind of night.

Randall: You get a sense of what kind of people they are?
Beth: Rastafarian vegans who love outdoor sports.
Randall: Really?
Beth: Nope.

Beth: ...keeping the kids apart didn't work out too well for Romeo and Juliet's parents, so...

Beth: Hey. Look at my feet. What do you see?
Randall: A couple hundred dollars on the Amex.
Beth: Mm-mmm. Open toe shoes for an open mind.

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Beth: The only way we're gonna get through this is to have an open mind. And red wine. Lots of red wine.

Malik: First stop on our Philly tour: Max's Steaks.

Malik: Kind of hard to believe people used to call Philly Killadelphia.

Randall: One day you're their biggest idol, next day, someone else comes along and becomes their whole world...
Darnell: It's terrifying.

Randall: We're not having chips and dip... You hide wine in the pantry?
Beth: I got three kids, okay? Give me a break.

Darnell: You can choose to see me and only see my mistakes, or you can choose to see something different.

Randall: "I, too
     I, too, sing America.
     I am the darker brother.
     They send me to eat in the kitchen,
     when company comes.
     But I laugh, and I eat
     well, and I grow strong.
     Tomorrow, I'll be at the table.
     When company comes,
     nobody'll dare say to me,
     'eat in the kitchen', then.
     Besides, they'll see how
     beautiful we are, and...
     be ashamed.
     I, too, am America".

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Season Finale

South Park 23×6

Randy Marsh: Enough of Tegridy Farms? South Park is nothing without Tegridy Farms!

Robert White: I'm Robert White, Jason's father. And I can tell you that, as a White, Jason lived a challenged life.

Robert White: When I look out on this congregation, I can't help but think, "There's not a whole lot of people here." Doesn't seem like a big deal. Nobody's outraged 'cause it was our family. Nobody cares when a White gets killed by the police. There should be protests and marches, but no. The police killed a White. That's not protest-worthy. .... Yeah, don't listen to me. I'm just a White.

Randy Marsh: Someone got some supposed evidence on me doing something illegal, and uh...
The President: Well, did you tell everyone you didn't do anything wrong?
Randy Marsh: Yeah. Yeah, of course.
The President: Well, did you then go on the attack, and swap the accusations, to make yourself a victim?
Randy Marsh: Did I... Did I what?
The President: Oh, geez. DARVO, Randy... Deny, attack, reverse victim and offender.

Randy Marsh: Do you know any good lawyers?
The President: Do I know any good lawyers? No. But I do know Rudy Giuliani.

Robert White: Hello, little fellow. How would you like to be a White?

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— Bien. Gracias. Y Tu?

Robert White: Alejandro... I need to tell you something. You see, now that you're a White life isn't gonna be so easy. You're gonna find that a lot of people in this world just don't care about The Whites.
Mrs. White: You'll hear all about how others in the world are mistreated but nobody will care when you are.
Little White: Being a White is the hardest thing ever.

TV Anchor: And the President of the United States today called the allegations against Randy Marsh "total buttfucking bullshit" and claims the neighbors who came forward with the evidence video are "Tampon Faced 69ing whistleblowers."

Randy Marsh: Maybe the president has brought down my moral meter. I don't mean to cast blame, I'm to blame, but, ever since he was elected I've compared my morals to his. And no matter how awful I am... I'm never as bad as the president so I'm okay.

Mrs. White: Oh yeah, just ignore us! The Whites are used to it!

Randy Marsh: Well, gang, I guess that's about it, huh? It's been a really good run but looks like the season is over.
Shelly Marsh: The season is over?
Randy Marsh: Well sure, the first snow is falling. Crops are pretty much dead. But what'd ya all think, huh? I think this season was a little better than anyone expected.

Randy Marsh: And, hey, we hope you all enjoyed the season too. It had a little bit of everything, didn't it? And hopefully the season finale really brought it all home.

Randy Marsh: Of course, if you haven't had a chance to try the Season Finale yet, it is available now for a special price. This limited edition weed made from the very last crop of the season is pricy but worth it. Now taking pre-orders for season two...

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Тана Френч — Мертвые возвращаются?.. (3/3)

<< Середина

&  — Все, что нам нужно было, — это дом, своя крыша над головой.
     — И все? Вся безопасность в доме?
     — Ну да. С психологической точки зрения разница столь велика, что ее не выразить никакими словами. Как только вы становитесь хозяином своего дома, свободным и незапуганным, что тогда остается другим — всем этим хозяевам квартир, работодателям, банкам? Чем они способны вам угрожать? Кто обладает над вами властью? При желании можно обойтись без чего угодно. Вместе мы всегда наскребем денег на еду. Зато чего у нас не будет — так это почти животного страха потерять крышу над головой. Как только мы от него избавимся, мы тотчас станем свободны. Нет, конечно, я отнюдь не утверждаю, что собственный дом автоматически превращает жизнь в рай; просто в нем заключена разница между свободой и рабством.

&  Тот, кто лишился самого главного — земли, — не способен постоять за себя.

&  — Разумеется, сама идея оказалась с изъяном. Причем изначально, и здесь уже невозможно помочь. Ибо зиждилась она на двух из самых стойких мифов человечества: возможности постоянства и простоте человеческой натуры. Все прекрасно выглядит в литературе, однако стоит закрыть книгу, как оба превращаются в чистой воды утопию. В нашей истории следовало поставить точку в тот самый вечер, ...когда только-только вселились сюда: и стали они жить-поживать. Увы, реальная жизнь требовала от нас продолжения жизни.

&  Цена — как лесной пожар, она способна меняться до неузнаваемости, и выбор не обязательно останется за вами. Не всегда дано знать заранее, что будет дальше.

&  Легавые — они как крысы или блохи, или типа того, от них в два счета не избавишься. Даже если их присутствия не видишь, это еще не значит, что их тут нет. Притаились где-нибудь и ждут, когда можно снова выползти наружу.

&  Если я и усвоила, работая в убойном, одну истину, то она следующая: если вы невиновны, это еще ничего не значит.

&  Быть любимым — тоже талант, что это порой требует не меньше стойкости и мужества, нежели самому любить другого человека.

  ... Хочется надеяться, что в те последние минуты время для нее растянулось, позволив ей прожить весь свой миллион жизней.”

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The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019)

Enzo: Gestures are all that I have. I have no words I can rely on, because my tongue was designed long and flat and is therefore an ineffective tool for making complicated polysyllabic sounds.

Enzo: I saw a documentary about Mongolia on TV. In Mongolia, they believe that when a dog has finished living his lifetimes as a dog, his next incarnation will be as a man.

Enzo: Call it fate, call it luck. All I knew was I was meant to be his dog.

Enzo: Denny always said the best drivers focus only on the present. Never dwelling on the past, never committing to the future. Reflection must come at a later time.

Denny: Car goes where your eyes go, Enz.

Enzo: I've learned that people will say just about anything in front of me, as I am only a dumb dog.

Enzo: Oh, God. It must be amazing to have a body that can carry an entire creature inside. I mean, other than a tapeworm, which I've had.

Denny: When I'm in a race car, I'm the creator of my own destiny. "That which you manifest is before you." Create your own conditions and rain is just rain.

Enzo: Denny always said panic's a driver's worst enemy. So, I did not panic.

Enzo: I'm a dog. And when God denied dogs the use of thumbs, He gave us the ability to survive without food for extended periods. So, although a thumb would've been very helpful, allowing me to turn a doorknob, for instance, my second-best tool was my ability to go without food.

Enzo: The transmission gear snaps. The clutch fails. Brakes go soft from overheating... The poor driver will crash. The average driver will quit. But the great driver will drive through the problem.

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Enzo: It must be so difficult being a person... Sometimes I doubt my ability to interact on such a level, but I know it's required if I'm to become the human I hope to be.

Enzo: A true champion can accomplish things a normal person would consider impossible. Denny just needed to remember that...

Enzo: While I very much wish to be human, there is one advantage to being a dog that I will miss... A dog can power down his psyche and slow his metabolism. He can sit for hours on end with no effort. A dog can change the tempo of the world, but people are at its mercy.

Denny: And what if I don't win?
Don Kitch: There's no dishonor in losing the race, there's only dishonor in not racing because you're afraid to lose.

Enzo: If a driver has the courage to create his own conditions... then the rain is simply rain.

Enzo: I saw a documentary about Mongolia on TV. In Mongolia, when a dog dies, he is buried high in the hills, so people cannot walk on his grave.

Enzo: His master whispers into the dog's ears his wishes that in his next life the dog will return as a man. Not all dogs return as men, they say. Only those who are ready. I'm ready.

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The Laughing Place

Castle Rock 2×5

Carl Wilkes: The hell's this? Brad Rabbit? You mean Br'er Rabbit? This is supposed to be the Uncle Remus stories?
Principal: Yes, that is a more contemporary edition—
Carl Wilkes: "Politically correct", I think, is the term you're rooting around for there.

Carl Wilkes: Do you know the real story of the Laughing Place? I'm not talking about the hippidy-dippidy kumbaya...

Carl Wilkes: I'm talking about the real story. Br'er Fox isn't friends with Br'er Rabbit. Br'er Fox wants to eat Br'er Rabbit, and that is the real world, Annie-bear... killing and eating... Running and hiding. But do you know what smart old Br'er Rabbit figured out? Your Laughing Place is anywhere you say it is.

Young Annie: Well, bad doesn't make you interesting. Mama always says, "It just makes you bad".

Teen Annie: Mama? Did we go back to alphabetical order for the pantry?

Chrysida Wilkes: You wanna end up like your mom? Wearing these jammies?
Teen Annie: Mom, I like your uniform.
Chrysida Wilkes: Get the white coat. That's the uniform folks salute. Girls who wear these, we just clean.

Chrysida Wilkes: Nothing on Earth dirtier than the human mouth, Annie. You clean and clean... and it just gets dirty again.

Annie: The less you know, the safer you are.

Rita: Are you a fan of this one?
Teen Annie: That's a kid's book.
Rita: Not really. Not the real story.

Rita: This isn't like the cartoon. In the original, they burn his feet off, and that's just the beginning.

Teen Annie: So the lying part's the same, but there's just consequences. I always tell my dad with his stories there has to be consequences or else it's just a bunch of stuff happening, and that's not a real story, I don't think.

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Teen Annie: "Pinocchio said to himself with great content, 'How ridiculous I was as a...'" "'Marionette, and how happy I am now that I've become a real boy'." So he just turns into a real boy?
Rita: Yes, it's his redemption. ....
Teen Annie: Um, but what's it doing at the end of this story?
Rita: I... I don't understand.
Teen Annie: Well, Pinocchio's a liar, so why should he get a happy ending? Just because he gave a fairy some coins? That's not how it works.
Rita: Well, how should it work?
Teen Annie: Well, they should have killed him!

Rita: In Collodi's first draft, that was the ending.
Teen Annie: Well, there you go. Now, why the heck did he change it?
Rita: 'Cause his editor thought it was too dark. He thought it would scare kids.
Teen Annie: Well, sure, they should be scared! In this world, you're either good or you're bad, and... and if you're bad, you pay.

Carl Wilkes: You know, um... in the end, Jack is a settler... But Annabel, she'll never stop looking, and that... and that... that's me, darling.
Teen Annie: Well, what are you looking for?
Carl Wilkes: I... I don't know. That's... that's part of the looking, is not knowing what you're looking for.

Carl Wilkes: You remember this, Annie-bear. No matter what, I will always be your number one fan.

Bartender: What'll it be?
Annie: Vodka. Mama's drink...

Chrysida Wilkes: It's no place for a good woman, this dirty world.
Teen Annie: Okay, well, then we'll just have to clean it up, okay?

Chrysida Wilkes: There are things you don't know, Annie...

Chrysida Wilkes: 'Cause, Annie... Once the rot takes root, it's always there whether you see it or not.

Teen Annie: Reading was my problem. Not math.

Annie: I'm on your side. You poor thing. But there's a way. A way for us to both get away clean.

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Тана Френч — Мертвые возвращаются?.. (2/3)

<< Начало

&  Когда тебе восемнадцать, те, кому за двадцать пять, неотличимы друг от друга и от стенки тоже.

&  Спросите любую балерину, любого фигуриста или каскадера, любого, кто зарабатывает на жизнь исполнением красивых номеров, и он скажет: ничто не отнимает столько сил, как кажущаяся легкость.

&  Время... Время трудится на нас, не надо только ему мешать.

&  Любому детективу в мире известно, что лучшее для него оружие такое: он должен прислушиваться к зову сердца. Поскольку пыточная с ее орудиями истязания ушла в прошлое, силой склонить кого-то к признанию, тем более к признанию в убийстве, невозможно. Силой никого не заставишь привести вас к мертвому телу, выдать кого-то из родных и близких или настучать на главаря банды. Тем не менее люди постоянно это делают. А поступают они так потому, что нуждаются не в одной лишь безопасности: им нужна также чистая совесть, возможность прихвастнуть, сбросить с себя напряжение, шанс начать жизнь с чистого листа — да все, что угодно. Назовите, и не ошибетесь. И если мы можем вычислить, чего же вам не хватает — что вы прячете в глубине души, да так, что порой сами о том не догадываетесь, — и поводим этим самым желанным предметом у вас перед носом, вы продадите мать родную с потрохами.

&  Профессиональная деформация: вы прорабатываете самые невообразимые возможности, зато самые простые приходят в голову с великим опозданием. Чем выше ставки, тем ниже, тем примитивнее технология.

&  — Есть испанская поговорка, которая всегда поражала меня своей мудростью: «Бери что хочешь, но только плати, говорит Господь». ... Я не верю в Бога, но этот принцип, как мне кажется, обладает какой-то собственной божественностью. Ибо безупречен. Что может быть проще и одновременно важнее? Можете брать от жизни все, что хотите, при условии, что принимаете цену и готовы ее заплатить.

&  Независимо оттого, насколько хорошо вы владеете собой, насколько хорошо умеете держать язык за зубами, спустя какое-то время хранить секрет становится все трудней и трудней. Необходимость молчания начинает давить тяжким грузом, и нервы постепенно начинают сдавать. Честное слово, легче умереть и унести тайну с собой в могилу. Если дать человеку поговорить, главное — время от времени потихоньку подталкивать его в нужном направлении, указывая путь, а остальное он сделает сам.

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Tertia Optio

Jack Ryan 2×2

Jack Ryan: And why would I do that?
Lee Klein: 'Cause I'm giving you your first move.

Mike November: Jesus, Jack. You slept with a foreign agent and you made a deal with her to trade intel.
Jack Ryan: Well, technically, those are two separate incidents, but yeah.

Mike November: You guys married?
Jim Greer: Divorced.
Jack Ryan: Single.
Mike November: ..... All right, great talk.

Jack Ryan: What about you?
Mike November: Yeah, divorced, twice. Same woman.
Jack Ryan: Wow. You just didn't learn your lesson the first time, or...?
Mike November: Heart wants what the heart wants.

Jim Greer: Well, you know what they say, there's power in threes.

Jack Ryan: Please, for the next few moments, why don't we just tell the truth...

Jack Ryan: The truth.

Jack Ryan: I have no reason to believe you. And even less reason to trust you.

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The End of the F***ing World 2×1

Bonnie: I learnt about punishment from a young age. I learnt it happens because of love...

Bonnie: Life can be hard. Mum taught me how to cope with it...

Bonnie: Sometimes a small decision can lead to something big. Something really big...

Clive Koch: Foucault is an embarrassment. He has no class.

Clive Koch: "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you". Sartre.

Clive Koch: Be the protagonist in your own story. And that story begins with an act of intellectual defiance.

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Bonnie: I was interested.
Clive Koch: In what?
Bonnie: In what the point is. Of anything.

Clive Koch: Ah. Exams rank different levels of mediocrity, that's all. Exceptional people don't do well at them.

Bonnie: Has it happened yet?
Clive Koch: What?
Bonnie: The love?
Clive Koch: Nearly. But, er, we're finished for tonight.

Bonnie: Love makes you feel quite clear about what is right and what is wrong. And when someone has done something wrong, they have to get punished.

Bonnie: I used feel like I maybe wasn't real. Like I was made up of nothing. But when you fall in love, the nothing feeling is eaten by a something feeling, which is eaten by an everything feeling. You swallowed me. And set me free.

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Тана Френч — Мертвые возвращаются?..

<< В лесной чаще (Дублинский отдел по расследованию убийств — 1)

Дублинский отдел по расследованию убийств — 2

  “По ночам, если я сплю одна, мне по-прежнему снится Уайтторн-Хаус. ...

&  Вот чем, пожалуй, так привлекательна работа под прикрытием: безжалостностью и отсутствием всяких границ. От таких вещей порой дух захватывает.

&  Я рано открыла для себя простую истину: тоскуя о потерянном, недолго потерять самое себя.

&  — ...хотелось бы. Хотеть можно сколько угодно, только этим делу не поможешь. Раз уж мы имеем то, что имеем, значит, надо стараться.

&  Пространство, которое только что занимали наши тела, заполняла собой тишина, чтобы потом, словно пыль, осесть на пол.

&  Нельзя ставить себе в заслугу то, что сделал, загнанный в угол. Ни мужеством, ни упрямством там и не пахло — чистый инстинкт.

&  Отвечать он, ясное дело, не собирался, но игра в молчанку — старый полицейский трюк, и я по этой части виртуоз. В общем, я подперла подбородок кулачком и просто смотрела на Рафа. Ждала.

&  Дело не в бессердечии или инстинкте самосохранения. Факт остается фактом: в каждом деле об убийстве, которым я занималась, главным действующим лицом был убийца. Жертва — и представьте, как объяснить это семье, у которой не осталось ничего, кроме надежды, — лишь случайно оказывалась в перекрестье прицела, когда пуля уже была в стволе, а курок взведен. Властный самодур всегда готов убить дражайшую половину, стоит той проявить неповиновение, — вашей дочери лишь не повезло стать его женой. Грабитель давно шастает с ножом по темному переулку, и ваш муж просто некстати свернул в тот вечер именно туда. Мы проходимся по всей жизни убитого частым гребнем не для того, чтобы побольше узнать о жертве, а чтобы выяснить что-то о преступнике, вычислив точный миг, когда кто-то попал в перекрестье прицела. Пользуясь своими инструментами и правилами, мы проводим линию прямиком к дулу, из которого вылетела пуля. Жертва может объяснить нам, как это случилось, но почти никогда — почему. Единственная причина, начало и конец, замкнутый круг — убийца.

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405 Method Not Allowed

Mr. Robot 4×5

Darlene: It's cool, dude. We don't have to talk.

Fernando Vera: It's time we talked.

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Blood Money

Silicon Valley 6×2

Gilfoyle: Crazy, right? Domino's Pizza in a fantasy medieval universe...

Richard: Money just perverts everything!
Gilfoyle: At this point, I could stand to be a little perverted.
Dinesh: Yeah, I wanna be a lot perverted.

Gilfoyle: Microphone...
Dinesh: Oh! Uh... Kittens, puppies, United Nations!

Richard: Oh, yes, you are, Jared. You are a buddy-fucker. I am your buddy, and you are fucking me. Ergo, you are a buddy-fucker. Goodbye.

Richard's just tasked me with streamlining productivity and balancing headcount. Can you explain to me why you have no one working under you? It just seems odd considering that the agile board is showing that you have a massive backlog.
Gilfoyle: You're new here, so I'll forgive the patronizing tone. I'm more concerned with being right than being fast, and I don't like dealing with people. To wit, are we done?

Tracy: Oh, you're "that guy".
Gilfoyle: What "guy" exactly?
Tracy: The brooding, arrogant guy who refuses to take orders? Self-taught coder who looks down on anyone who's taken a class. You're probably an atheist or something more contrarian. You claim to be an anarcho-capitalist, but you work here and pay taxes. You've probably read half of Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, and it's about 50/50 whether you own a snake.

Tracy: I'm assigning you five coders.
Gilfoyle: Inadvisable.
Tracy: Noted. I'll send them over first thing tomorrow.

Gavin: Well, the Valley's become prohibitively expensive. Look at these numbers. If we move to Georgia, we can save a fortune and get a further investment. It's the only way.

Gavin: What? Not Atlanta! Tbilisi. The country of Georgia, not the state.

Monica: Laurie! What are you doing here?
Laurie: The same as you, I suppose. Eating caviar and... hacking famine.

Laurie: Mm. The interesting thing about moving, Monica, is that you can do it more than once. I am back.

Monica: Let's just worry about us, okay? I will introduce you, and just... let me do the talking, okay? Don't speak until...

Monica: Fifty million sounds great, but it's an awfully low price to pay for your integrity.

Monica: It's a billion, Richard...

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Gilfoyle: Five people, as you requested.
Tracy: That man over there?
Gilfoyle: Ken.
Tracy: Isn't he the coffee guy?
Gilfoyle: Barista. Yes. And Joyce was watering the plants. Mona was working security. Dan and George, they were painting the lobby. Until today. Which reminds me, they all need to change their LinkedIn status to... "placaters of middle management".

Dinesh: You know, Gilfoyle, when I first heard the phrase "dick-measuring contest", I thought it was a contest to see who could measure the most dicks. But it isn't, is it, Gilfoyle?

Richard: Okay, Jared had you pretty convinced that this was evil money.
Monica: It's a billion fucking dollars, Richard!
Richard: Okay, so does that make this less evil or, like, way more evil?

Monica: No, you can't talk to those animals! You say a word to anyone out there, and this whole company turns into Lord of the Flies in five seconds. It's a billion dollars, Richard.

Jared: I oughta knock your teeth, you bitch-made motherfucker. I was state-raised! You think I'm scared to catch a case of some bullshit?!

Jared: You keep her name out of your skanky little mouth, you little, little bitch! Dope-led, peckerwood motherfucker! Get checked in, hoe! You wanna dance on the blacktop, homie?!

Tracy: You said I could have it fast or I could have it right, but I just got it fast and right, and all I had to do was threaten your manhood by assigning you other coders. It worked at seven other companies, and it obviously worked here. We're back on schedule! Now, why would I be sorry about that.
Gilfoyle: I respect your skills.

Maximo Reyes: To rectifying the mistakes of my father... The fool who allowed the workers to unionize and ask for higher wages and more expensive hospitals.

Richard: Maximo... we will never collect and monetize user data. Ever.
Maximo: Then why would I give you one billion dollars, Richard?

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Straw Dogs (1971)

David Sumner: What was so funny with them?
Amy: They just think you're strange.
David Sumner: Why, because I'm American?
Amy: Mmm, no. No. Just strange.
David Sumner: Do you think I'm strange?
Amy: Occasionally.

Chris Cawsey: I was just sayin' to your missus that in a funny sort of way I feel closer to rats than I do to people. Even though I kill 'em for a living. Their dying is my living, you might say.

Chris Cawsey: Smell a rat, see a rat, kill a rat. That's me. That's Chris Cawsey. I'd be lost without 'em, I suppose. That's true. I tell you straight. Cleverest thing you ever see around these parts is a rat. Rats is life!

Amy: You're not being fair. I'm just trying to help.
David Sumner: If you want to help, then get your friends to finish. Get the garage makers and the rat catchers– Get them all to finish! A-And fix the toilet and clean up the kitchen. That would be a terrific help!

David Sumner: I love you, Amy, but I want you to leave me alone.

Barney Hood: I expect to see you both at the social and at the church when you can spare the time...
David Sumner: Time is a little difficult to find these days. So are cats.

David Sumner: I have a grant to study, uh, possible structures in stellar interiors and the implications regarding their radiation characteristics. Am I boring anyone?
Barney Hood: Radiation... That's an unfortunate dispensation.
David Sumner: It surely is. Yes, indeed. As long as it's not another bomb.
Barney Hood: You're a scientist. Can you deny the responsibility?
David Sumner: Can you?.. After all, there's never been a kingdom given to so much bloodshed as that of Christ.
Barney Hood: That's Montesquieu, isn't it?
Louise Hood: Who's he?
Barney Hood: Somebody well worth reading. We'd better leave these good people.

David Sumner: This is my house.

David Sumner: No. I care. This is where I live. This is me. I will not allow violence against this house. Don't worry. Go on upstairs.

Henry Niles: I don't know my way home.
David Sumner: It's okay. I don't either.

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The One with the Evil Orthodontist

Friends 1×20

Chandler: I feel violated. And not in a good way.

Rachel: I had a bra...

Chandler: She obviously got my message... and is choosing not to call me. Now I'm needy and snubbed. God, I miss just being needy.

Rachel: There's a history there. It's like you and Carol.
Ross: No. No, no. It's nothing like me and Carol.
Rachel: Please. If she said to you, "Ross, I want you on this couch... right here, right now," what would you say?
Ross: ....
Chandler: If it helps I could slide over.
Ross: It's a totally different situation! It's apples and oranges. It's orthodontists and lesbians... I gotta go.

Phoebe: Where are you going?
Ross: I just have to go, all right? Do I need a reason, huh? I have things to do with my life. I have a jam-packed schedule. And I am late for keeping up with it, okay?

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Cargo

Jack Ryan 2×1

Jack Ryan: So... the question will always be: With what lens are you watching the news?

Jack Ryan: The fact is that Venezuela is arguably the single-greatest resource of oil and minerals on the planet. So, why is this country in the midst of one of the greatest humanitarian crises in modern history?

Jack Ryan: Russia, China can never be the most major threat until countries like Venezuela leave the door open to our very own backyard.

Mitchel Chapin: Then why not try diplomacy first?...

Carter Estes: People fall into two categories: they're either assets or they're liabilities. And right now, Jim... you're not in the asset category.

Jim Greer: So, would you have gone up in one of these things?
Mikhail Pelevin: For my country? Maybe if I was a dog.

General Ubarri: Well, it's not hard to come by a few old army uniforms. And from the satellite, you're looking down on our country. It would be very hard to tell you who, exactly, is wearing them...
Senator Moreno: So you are denying that these are your soldiers guarding these unknown-to-you shipments?
President Nicolas Reyes: It is not easy for outsiders to understand what is going on in Venezuela. We're in the midst of a revolutionary process.

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What It Always Is

The Walking Dead 10×5

Negan: Carl was... I would never kill a kid.

Brandon: I'm with you, obviously. We're both Negan.

Brandon: I'm gonna say... she's a seven.
Negan: What?
Brandon: Isn't this the kind of stuff you and the Saviors used to do to kill time?
Negan: I can't say that I remember rating walkers on hotness. Besides, she's clearly a three.

Siddiq: You know, maybe we can't get away from it. But we can talk about it. I mean, what are we here for if not for each other?

Negan: New plan, then. You go wherever the hell you want. ... You see, I don't give a shit. Just as long as I don't have to see that pasty, creepy-ass face of yours ever again.

Alpha: Patience. Shifts in strategy take time. The creek, the water, the tree... it will crush them.

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Alpha: Let us vote. Anyone agree?... That's democracy for you.

Alpha: The human body... is fragile. All it takes for it to collapse is a few nicks in the right spots. Just like the enemy. When their world collapses, the smart ones will know where to come to stay safe. We'll be waiting.

Brandon: What do you think? I passed, right? I am Neg...

Dante: The universe is basically on pause till God gets back.

Alpha: We've all had to wear different masks at different times...

Negan: What's the matter? Huh? Y'all scared of the Big Bad Wolf? Little pig, little pig! Let me in. And there you are! Oh, I am gonna huff. I am gonna puff. I am gonna blow... your... house... all the way in.

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Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)

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Dreyfus: The thought of a world without Clouseau fills me with delight, like a summer with a thousand Julys. It intoxicates my soul with...
Dr. Longet: Your eyes.
Dreyfus: What?
Dr. Longet: "Intoxicates my soul with your eyes." You lapsed into the lyrics of You Go to My Head.
Dreyfus: I did? I apologize.
Dr. Longet: Never apologize for Cole Porter.

Dreyfus: .... What are you thinking, Doctor?
Dr. Longet: It wasn't Cole Porter. It was Gillespie and Coots.

Deputy Commissioner Lasorde: Read this most carefully. Give me your opinion.
Clouseau: I will read my opinion and give you yours most carefully.

Clouseau: ♪ I'm dancing in the rice ♪
     ♪ Just dancing in the rice ♪
     ♪ What a wonderful feeling ♪
     ♪ I'm... happy in the rice ♪
     ♪ Always happy... ♪

Francois: Shall I tell him?
Dreyfus: Don't bother. He would just say, "I know that."

Dreyfus: Trying to talk sense to Clouseau is like Einstein trying to explain relativity to a "minkey."

Clouseau: Do you have for me the message?
Hotel Clerk: You want a massage?
Clouseau: If you have one for me, yes.
Hotel Clerk: Why don't you try Tokyo Lil at the end of the block? Ask for Passionflower Shirley, the Yokohama Butterfly.
Clouseau: Why should I do that?
Hotel Clerk: You want a massage, don't you?
Clouseau: Yes, but I want it from you.
Hotel Clerk: Sir, I don't give massages.
Clouseau: You gave me one this morning.
Hotel Clerk: You're mistaken.
Clouseau: Don't you try the tricks Anglais with me, monsieur. I received a message this morning from Inspector Quinlan of the Yard of Scotland.
Hotel Clerk: The message!
Clouseau: You gave it to me!
Hotel Clerk: Message. You mean "message."
Clouseau: I know what I mean, you lunatic. Do you or do you not have for me the message?
Hotel Clerk: No, sir. For you there is no message.

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Dreyfus: But is he gone? Is he really? I've got this ghastly feeling that next week or tomorrow, I'll open the trunk of my car or my closet, and... "Peekaboo!"

Dreyfus: I suppose we occasionally had our... little disagreements, but when you work with somebody for 20 years, you can't always be expected to see... to see eye to eye.

Hercule: He was the most successful man on the force. Everything I thought made up a proper investigation... he did the opposite.

Clouseau: Facts, Hercule. Facts. Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game. Listen to me and you will learn something. The facts in this case are...

Marie Jouvet: ...Yet Clouseau was proved right. Maria Gambrelli was innocent.
Hercule: Clouseau was always proved right at the end of the case, but on the way, even he made a few miscalculations...

Hercule: I admired his successes, but his methods... they made a mockery of everything I knew of police work.

Marie Jouvet: Now with your boss gone, no more sneak attacks. You must be very relieved.
Cato Fong: Not entirely. Sometimes when you do something long enough, you miss it, even if it was painful.

Marie Jouvet: Do you think he's dead?
Simone: I hope not.
Marie Jouvet: What do you think, Sir Charles?
Sir Charles: No. Men like Clouseau never die. They're indestructible. That's the way it should be.
Marie Jouvet: Why?
Sir Charles: We need them. They help us preserve our sense of humor. They're living proof that however bad things get, if you persevere, you survive and sometimes even win.

Sir Charles: He was a fool, but he epitomized the 11th commandment.
Marie Jouvet: The 11th commandment?
Sir Charles: Thou shalt not give up.

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A Chip Driver Mystery

The Good Place 4×6

Chapter 45

Bad Janet: Oh, hi, dipshirt.

Michael: Remember, that's the road map. First, we change the behavior. Then, we work on motivation.

Tahani: I've been through worse. Once, at Elon Musk's birthday party, I was seated between Silvio Berlusconi and Elon Musk.

Bad Janet: Can you just skip to the end?
Michael: No. I need to tell you the whole story.
Bad Janet: Why? Every story about humans ends the same way. Just tell me how they screwed up and put me out of my misery.

Michael: You're judging them too quickly.
Bad Janet: Trust me, I've spent a lot more time with people than you have. And I know literally everything that every one of them has ever done. Do you know what's happening right now on Earth? Wars, murders, women in $400 yoga pants are refusing to vaccinate their children. Vindictive nerds at Apple are changing the charging cable shape again...

Bad Janet: Where does this hope come from, man? This insane hope that people are worth the trouble. To quote a terrible song by a terrible musician that people love so much they constantly put it in terrible movie trailers: humans are b-b-b-b-bad to the bone.
Michael: Well, I think that they're g-g-g-good sometimes. And you should give them the b-b-b-benefit of the d-d-d-doubt.

John: Look, the neighborhood is obviously amazing, but it's also a little season four of "Downton Abbey." Beautifully designed, but a real snooze-fest.

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John: Tahani helped me realize that gossip was an unhealthy way for me to boost my self-esteem. But on the other hand, this Jason tea needs to be spilled!
Chidi: Just try to remember what Emmanuel Kant said. It is your duty to keep your friend's secrets.
John: But my favorite philosopher, Bethenny Frankel, would say that I have a duty to mention it all, and if you can't handle the truth, then you can't handle me!

Tahani: Perhaps I can convince Simone to handle this the British way. Smile bravely, bury your feelings, and allow a steady drizzle to slowly wash away your sadness over 50 years.

Eleanor: F that!

Eleanor: He needs to change, and walking on eggshells around him ain't gonna do the trick. We need to throw the egg right at his face!

Bad Janet: Oh. Middle-aged American male fragility. You know why they're called baby boomers, right? Because the tiniest little pinprick to their ego, and boom. They become babies.

Michael: That was it. We were forked.

Michael: For months, you and I have been debating. Are people good or bad? But as I watched those three people pick themselves up and dust themselves off, I realized we've been asking the wrong question... What matters isn't if people are good or bad. What matters is if they're trying to be better today than they were yesterday.

Michael: I hope you'll read it...
Bad Janet: Great thinking. People that get books as gifts always read them. Bye!

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Донна Тартт — Тайная история (4/4)

<< Ранее

&  Что немыслимо, то неосуществимо.

&  – Ты никогда не пробовал в минуты беспокойства думать на другом языке?.. Это позволяет держать себя в руках, не дает мыслям разбегаться. Хорошее упражнение в любой ситуации. Или можешь попробовать то, что делают буддисты.
     – Чего?
     – В дзен-буддизме есть практика, которая называется «дза-дзен», – если не ошибаюсь, похожая существует в тераваде под названием «саматха». Нужно сесть и остановить взгляд на голой стене. Какие бы чувства ты ни испытывал, какими бы сильными или даже непреодолимыми они ни казались, следует оставаться неподвижным. И смотреть на стену. Разумеется, для успешного результата требуется сохранять сидячее положение как можно дольше.

&  – Великолепие есть во всем, что сделано с размахом.

&  Прекрасное, если оно не сочетается с чем либо более значительным, есть не более чем яркая погремушка. Не в том беда, что ваш Джулиан сосредоточен лишь на некоторых, возвышенных аспектах действительности, а в том, что он предпочитает игнорировать все прочие, которые ничуть не менее важны.

&  Мертвые являются нам во сне, поскольку наше восприятие не позволяет нам видеть их наяву. Эти ночные гости суть образы, проецируемые в наше сознание из немыслимого далека, в определенном смысле их можно уподобить свету давно угасшей звезды...

  ... Он направился прочь, а я смотрел ему вслед до тех пор, пока его темная фигура не растворилась в сумраке зала.”

Mommy Deadest

Mr. Mercedes 3x8

Lou Linklatter: It could be said that Brady helped secure my freedom just as much as you did.
Holly Gibney: That's not fair...
Lou Linklatter: It shouldn't be said.

Lou Linklatter: Look, there's advantages and drawbacks to Brady being in my head. The key is to know which one is which... I know!

Holly Gibney: Well, lots of people hear voices, okay? As much as 20% of the population, and that doesn't necessarily mean mental illness.
Bill Hodges: For the ones who heard Brady, it did.

Peter Saubers: Sanctuary laws, right? Where police can't enter. Isn't that kind of a law?
Roland Finkelstein: Oh, not really. The government is free to go after the church, it just chooses not to.

Roland Finkelstein: Under Ohio law... anyone and everyone involved in the robbery, including those who were handling the stolen goods, is guilty of murder.
Peter Saubers: What?!
Roland Finkelstein: As guilty as if he pulled the trigger himself.
Peter Saubers: How can that be?
Roland Finkelstein: Because politicians get to draft penal codes, none of whom want to be viewed as being soft on crime. And home robberies, they get prosecutorial overkill because that's what terrifies everyone the most.

Bill Hodges: Does he have the manuscripts?
Roland Finkelstein: I can't reveal privileged information.
Bill Hodges: You could deny he's got them... He's got them.

Lou Linklatter: Well... that whole... "nobody's above the law" thing, that's kind of a myth, really. ... It's only the little people that can't be above the law. The big people... Nixon, he got pardoned. He was above the law. The banks that were "too big to fail." People in Ohio died because of them. They didn't go to jail.
Monica Porter: The banks didn't literally kill anyone.
Lou Linklatter: O.J. did, Teddy Kennedy did, George Zimmerman did... the guy that... This idea that nobody is above the law, not even the president of the United States... I mean, it's a joke. Clinton, Nixon, Andrew Jackson, they all broke laws. Even Bush... I mean, if you count starting a war under false pretenses so that your vice president can get a gazillion dollars in... in private defense contracts. People are still dying...

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Lou Linklatter: If I was to speak for society at large... When the law doesn't work, when government officials are allowed to commit crimes, when the people that we trust to uphold the law are the same ones that are breaking it, there needs to be a revolution.
Ida Silver: Brother.

Alma Lane: We're living large, Morris. Nothing more you could ask out of life.

Roland Finkelstein: I never knew you were such a presidential historian.
Lou Linklatter: I'm not, actually. Brady is. Was. Was. He always used to say that... if you wanna take the pulse of America, just look who the president is.

Morris Bellamy: Things never go the way they're fucking planned, that's what the fuck happened! She fought like a fucking wolverine!

Alma Lane: See, you think you're having a shitty day, but you know what real shit is? It's having all your days blur into one another, not being able to distinguish one from the next. That's my idea of hell.

Alma Lane: Do you know who I like to go to in challenging times? Liza Minnelli. The things she endured... Nobody ever gives that dame enough credit, but I do. Do you know what she'd say to you right now?... She'd say, "Money."

Morris Bellamy: We will be making a plan for the book delivery, a plan that you will execute faithfully, or it's mommy deadest.

Holly Gibney: If I continue to see him, I might fall in love with him... and I'll lose control. ... And when you love people, you grow branches or limbs, and they are outside of your jurisdiction...

Holly Gibney: Being able to function in the outside world, I have to protect myself however I can, you know? I need... I need to be in control.
Bill Hodges: Well, I'm no expert on the outside world stuff, but... it seems to me... one of the main perks is getting to love people, being loved back.
Holly Gibney: Not everyone gets to have that.
Bill Hodges: Why can't you? Leap and the net will appear. Isn't that what Jerome told you? It's good advice.

Morris Bellamy: Nobody has to die here. We just want the books.

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Restore Hope

Castle Rock 2×4

Nadia: Does the Bible say anything about how to stop a family from killing each other?
Pastor: Actually, yes.

Nadia: Sometimes it helps to feel like it's your fault... because that means you've got control. You think, "If I broke it, then I can fix it."

Ace: I find I can live with a lot...

Pop: Uh, Reginald Marion Merrill... Known as Pop to his friends, enemies, and various other miscreants... Passed away this week, much to the delight of damn near everyone. Pop loan-sharked every sucker that got himself into a jam and... and hawked every manner of gewgaw and doodad... to unsuspecting chumps at the Emporium Galorium. Caveat emptor. That's the sign that sits on the counter. It's Latin. It means, "You've just been cheated by the biggest son of a bitch in southern Maine."

Ace: What's it gonna take to convince you that I've changed, brother?
Chris: Stop being so fucking weird.
Ace: All right. There is something else going on.
Chris: I fucking knew it!
Ace: But it's not like anything you're thinking.

Ace: Did you know that 400 years ago... Jerusalem's Lot was called New Jerusalem?

Pastor: We'll make you good as new, son.

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Донна Тартт — Тайная история (3/4)

<< Ранее

&  На свете нет ничего более одинокого и бестолкового, чем бессонница.

&  Даже самые вульгарные вещи не вызывают отвращения на рассвете.

&  – Знаешь, что Джулиан говорит о «Божественной комедии»?.. Что она недоступна для нехристианина. Что если человек хочет не только прочитать, но и понять Данте, он должен стать христианином хотя бы на несколько часов.

&  Он снискал крайнюю неприязнь у всей администрации колледжа, однако у садовников, поваров и уборщиц – уважение и почет. Он не обращался с ними как с равными – так он не обращался практически ни с кем, – но и не прятался за снисходительным дружелюбием, присущим богатым. «Я считаю, что к бедности и болезням мы относимся с куда большим лицемерием, чем люди в минувшие века, – сказал однажды Джулиан. – Здесь, в Америке, богатые пытаются делать вид, будто деньги – это единственное, что отличает их от бедных, а ведь это просто напросто не так. Кто-нибудь помнит определение справедливости в „Государстве“ Платона? Для общества справедливость заключается в том, что каждый его слой функционирует на собственной ступени иерархии и довольствуется своим местом. Неимущий человек, стремящийся занять более высокое общественное положение, лишь понапрасну обрекает себя на страдания. И имевшие хоть чуть-чуть мудрости бедняки всегда это знали, так же как и наделенные ею богачи».

&  Наверное, самое болезненное потрясение испытываешь, когда вдруг понимаешь, насколько был слеп.

&  – Вообще-то я думал, это хорошая идея.
     – Слишком хорошая. Полагаю, когда человек, привыкший к умственному труду, сталкивается с необходимостью действия, он склонен мысленно приукрашивать его, продумывать с чрезмерной тонкостью. На бумаге все выглядело весьма изящно, и только сейчас, когда дошло до дела, я понимаю, насколько все чудовищно сложно.

&  – Не понимаю, чем тебе не нравится первый план.
     – Он слишком стилизован. И строится на расчете вплоть до мелочей.
     – Но ведь расчет предпочтительнее случайности.
     – Здесь-то ты и заблуждаешься. Если мы стремимся выстроить события с излишней скрупулезностью, достичь точки X логическим путем, то должны учитывать, что, начав в точке X, тем же логическим путем можно проследовать в обратном направлении – и выйти прямо на нас. Проницательный ум без труда распознает чужой расчет. Но случайность? Она непредсказуема, непостижима, божественна.

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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

Stella Nicholls: Stories heal. Stories hurt. If we repeat them often enough, they become real. They make us who we are. They have such power.

Stella Nicholls: ...And as the legend goes, if you come to the Bellows House at dark and ask Sarah to tell you a story, it'll be the last story you ever hear. Muah-ha-ha-ha!

Stella Nicholls: You don't read the book. The book reads you.

Stella Nicholls: There's gotta be some way to stop a witch.

Chuck Steinberg: If it's in the paper, it has to be true, right?

Stella Nicholls: Stories can teach us to care. They make us brave enough to admit that we need each other... give us a home to go back to.

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The Lady in White

American Horror Story. 1984

9×7

Brooke: You can't not think about it. Of the decade you never got a chance to live. The '80s was morning in America, and I spent my morning in lockup...

Donna: There is one place the '80s will never be over...

Brooke: One day in the sun doesn't erase five years of darkness.

Bruce: Everybody's a stranger... 'til they're not.

Benjamin: What does being a ghost feel like?
Montana: It's actually not that bad. There's a constant feeling of emptiness and longing, but that's pretty much how I felt when I was alive, so...
Benjamin: Do you feel pain?
Chet: Xavier: Yes.
Ray: And fear.
Montana: But we can feel pleasure, too...

Bruce: Karma's a bitch, girls.

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Bruce: Concrete is so unforgiving. These old roads are like cheese graters. Rip your clothes clean off at 40 miles an hour. At 50, human skin sloughs off like wet paper. Bones are ground into nubs as you try to hold your face up. But one little bump... and you're bouncing. That's when pieces of you start falling off.

Courtney: Who are you?
Margaret: Oh, that's Kajagoogoo, you idiot! Limahl, are you gonna play "Too Shy"? I love that song.
Limahl: Oh, that's the only song we're going to play. It's our biggest hit. It's the only song anyone wants to hear.
Margaret: Wait, just one song? What about "NeverEnding Story"?
Limahl: Oh, it's from my solo career. I wouldn't dream of playing it with the band.

Brooke: Your hitchhiking days are over. Asshole.

Ramirez: When you sign a contract with the devil... you better understand the fine print.

Lavinia: You shouldn't be here. You don't deserve to sit in the place where he died.

Benjamin: What kind of man would I be if I didn't do everything I could to protect my son?

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Донна Тартт — Тайная история (2/4)

<< Начало

&  – Смерть – мать красоты.
     – А что же тогда красота?
     – Ужас.
     – Хорошо сказано. Красота редко несет покой и утешение. Напротив. Подлинная красота всегда тревожит.

&  – Но если красота – это ужас, то что же тогда желание? Нам кажется, что мы желаем многого, но в действительности мы хотим лишь одного. Чего же?
     – Жить.
     – Жить вечно

&  – Игнорировать существование иррационального опасно. Чем более развит человек, чем более он подчинен рассудку и сдержан, тем больше он нуждается в определенном русле, куда бы он мог направлять те животные побуждения, над которыми так упорно стремится одержать верх. В противном случае эти и без того мощные силы будут лишь копиться и крепнуть, пока наконец не вырвутся наружу – с тем большим разрушительным эффектом, что их так долго сдерживали. Противостоять им зачастую не способна никакая воля. В качестве предостережения относительно того, что случается, если подобный предохранительный клапан отсутствует, у нас есть пример римлян. Римские императоры...

&  – Гением Рима и, возможно, тем, что его погубило, была страсть к порядку. В римской архитектуре, литературе, законах хорошо видно это бескомпромиссное отрицание тьмы, бессмыслицы, хаоса. Понятно, почему римляне, обычно столь терпимые к чужим религиям, безжалостно преследовали христиан. Как нелепо полагать, что обычный преступник восстал из мертвых! Как отвратителен обычай чествовать его, передавая по кругу чашу с его кровью! Нелогичность этой религии пугала их, и они делали все возможное, чтобы ее искоренить. Я думаю, они шли на столь решительные меры не только потому, что она внушала им страх, но и потому, что она ужасно их привлекала. Прагматики бывают на удивление суеверны. Несмотря на всю их логику, римляне тряслись от страха перед сверхъестественным.

&  – Помните, мы говорили о том, как страшные, кровавые вещи могут быть необыкновенно прекрасны? Это очень греческая и очень глубокая мысль. В красоте заключен ужас. Все, что мы называем прекрасным, заставляет нас содрогаться. А что может быть более ужасающим и прекрасным для духа, подобного греческому или нашему, чем всецело утратить власть над собой? На мгновение сбросить оковы бытия, превратить в груду осколков наше случайное, смертное «я».

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The Club

This Is Us 4×6

Kate: Not even if you paid me in gold.

Randall: Parent-teacher conferences are next month.
Jack: Or today.

Jack: But I just want you to know, there is no such thing as a free brunch.

Wilkins: Well, what about today?
Randall: Today?... I'll make a call.

Toby: Well, I'll tell you what hasn't been going on. I'll tell you what hasn't been going on for nine months and 23 days.

Kate: And when are we gonna do that?
Toby: I don't know. Today? How 'bout today?

Toby: For the sake of our sex life, call your mother.
Kate: Okay.
Toby: Please call her.
Kate: I'm going to.
Toby: Please start dialing.

Kevin: I had that, by the way... It's just, rep 99 and 100 are typically the hardest ones.

Wilkins: Okay, gents, dollar a hole, two dollar Nassau, 50 cent skins. Pearson, you're up.

Toby: Ou est le métro, madame?
Kate: Ooh, la, la. What did you just say?
Toby: I said, "Where can I find the subway, miss?" It's the only French I remember after backpacking through Europe.

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Dave: You are gonna need to find the right clothes.
Jack: What? I thought we were just gonna hit some balls.
Dave: Well, it doesn't matter. Uh, you need to wear a collared shirt here at the club and no jeans.

Kevin: I'm starting to realize that, uh, people from small towns are never in a hurry...
Donna: Small towns aren't for everyone. But I remind myself of something Richard Russo once said... "People in small towns, more than in big cities, share a destiny."

Randall: You felt uncomfortable at a golf course and I probably wouldn't have even been allowed on it.

Jack: I just... I-I don't... I don't look at you and see color. I see my son.
Randall: Then you don't see me, Dad.

Kevin: So, um... what else is there to do in this town? And, um, please don't say the Zippo factory.
Donna: To be honest, there's nothing really to do here... except get high and have sex. And I don't do drugs.

Kevin: You've seen things. ... And yeah, you made some mistakes along the way, but you're trying. That doesn't make you unlovable. It makes you human.

Toby: Do you believe me when I say that you still fuel the furnace that is my loins?

Toby: My attraction to you... is purely primal, Kate Pearson. You are nothing more to me than a vessel for my feral lust.

Toby: Do you want to take Toby 2.0 for a spin?
Kate: I will drive you down to the rims.
Toby: Safe word?
Kate: Mom and Miguel.
Toby: Weird, but I like it.

Jack: I'm sorry. All right? I will... listen better and lecture less. Okay?

Jack: Me, I... I hit a ceiling. But for you, there is only sky. So don't get caught on the outside looking in. Sometimes you'll have to play up to the competition, sometimes you'll have to play down. But play the game.

Randall: This one's for you, Pop.

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Tegridy Farms Halloween Special

South Park 23×5

Randy Marsh: Shelly, we need to talk about your marijuana problem... You know, what's your problem with it?

Shelly Marsh: I hate marijuana.
Randy Marsh: Yes, we all know! But why?
Shelly Marsh: It stinks, and it makes everyone in this town dumber than they already are.

Shelly Marsh: Everyone in this country is getting dumber, and I wish marijuana was illegal again!

Police officer: When you have a problem with drugs and alcohol, you hurt everyone around you. Happy Halloween.

Butters Stotch: What are you in for? I'm in here because apparently I'm a passive-aggressive, controlling, and manipulative psychopath who's narcissistic behavior drives other people crazy.

Winnie-the-Pooh: Oh, hello there. Would you like to die?

Winnie-the-Pooh: Oh, I'm really going to enjoy eating your brains...

Randy Marsh: Hey, guess I slept in late, huh? What time is it?
Sharon Marsh: It's 8:15 a. m. November 3rd.
Randy Marsh: Oof, wow. That was some strong-ass Halloween Special, y'all.

Randy Marsh: Hey, at least I didn't really have butt sex with Harvey Weinstein, huh?... Huh? Or did I?... Whoo! Happy Halloween, everybody!

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Донна Тартт — Тайная история

  “В горах начал таять снег, а Банни не было в живых уже несколько недель, когда мы осознали всю тяжесть своего положения. ...

&  В моей жизни была только одна история, и лишь ее я могу рассказать.

&  Одна из характерных особенностей человека нашего времени – это страсть уходить в сторону от темы... В отличие от современного ума, прихотливого и непоследовательного, античный ум целенаправлен, решителен и неумолим. Подобное мышление не часто встретишь в наши дни. И хотя я могу перескакивать с одного на другое не хуже остальных, я постоянно испытываю навязчивое желание вернуться к сути проблемы.

&  – На мой взгляд, избыток учителей разлагает и губит молодые умы. Точно так же я считаю, что глубокое знакомство с одной книгой лучше, чем поверхностное с сотней. Я знаю, современники едва ли со мной согласятся, но все же вспомните – у Платона был всего один учитель, равно как и у Александра.

&  – Тихий настойчивый голос у нас в голове – почему он так мучает нас? Может быть, он напоминает нам о том, что мы живы, что мы смертны, что каждый из нас наделен неповторимой душой, расстаться с которой мы так боимся, хотя она-то и заставляет нас чувствовать себя несчастней всех прочих созданий? Кроме того, что, как не боль, обостряет наше ощущение самости? Ужасно, когда ребенок вдруг осознает, что он – обособленное от всего мира существо, что никто и ничто не страдает, когда он обжег язык или ободрал коленку, что его боль принадлежит лишь ему одному. Еще ужаснее, когда с возрастом начинаешь осознавать, что ни один, даже самый близкий и любимый, человек никогда не сможет понять тебя по-настоящему. Эго делает нас крайне несчастными, и не потому ли мы так стремимся от него избавиться?
     – Фурии...
     – Именно. Помните, как они доводили людей до безумия? Они заставляли внутренний голос звучать слишком громко, возводили присущие человеку качества в непомерную степень. Люди становились настолько самими собой, что не могли этого вынести.

&  Так все-таки как же избавиться от этого грозящего потерей рассудка эго, как полностью освободиться от него? Любовь? Но, как ... однажды сказал Софокл, лишь немногие сознают, что любовь – властитель жестокий и страшный. Один забывает себя ради другого, но при этом становится жалким рабом своенравнейшего из богов. Война? Можно забыться в экстазе битвы, сражаясь за славное дело, но в наши дни осталось не так уж много славных дел, за которые стоило бы сражаться.

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