Before Sunset

& Journalist: Do you consider the book to be autobiographical?
    Jesse: Well, I mean... isn’t everything autobiographical? I mean, we all see the world through our own tiny keyhole, right?

& Jesse: Thomas Wolfe ... says that we are the sum of all the moments of our lives... and anybody who sits down to write will use the clay of their own life... that you can’t avoid that. So when I look at my own life, I have to admit, right, that I... I’ve never been around a bunch of guns or violence, you know, not really. No political intrigue or a helicopter crash, right? But my life, from my own point of view, has been full of drama, right? And so I thought, if I could write a book... that could capture what it’s like to really meet somebody... One of the most exciting things that’s happened to me... is to meet somebody, make that connection. And if I could make that valuable, you know, to capture that... that would be the attempt, or...

& A reader: Do you think they get back together in six months... like they promise each other?
    Jesse: Like they promised? I think how you answer that, you know, is... It’s a good test, right, if you’re a romantic or a cynic. Right? I mean, you think they get back together, right?.. You don’t, for sure... And you hope they do, but you’re not sure. That’s why you’re asking the question. ... Look, in the words of my grandfather, okay: “To answer that would take the piss out of the whole thing.”

& Celine: Your book is a bestseller in the U.S.
    Jesse: It’s a tiny bestseller.
    Celine: Oh, come on.
    Jesse: All right. Officially, yes. Most people haven’t read Moby Dick. Why should they read my book?

& Celine: Reading something, knowing the character is based on you... it’s both flattering and disturbing at the same time.
    Jesse: How is it disturbing?
    Celine: I don’t know. Just being part of someone else’s memory. Seeing myself through your eyes...

& Jesse: Maybe what I’m saying is... the world might be evolving the way a person evolves. Like, I mean, me, for example. Am I getting worse? Am I improving? I don’t know. When I was younger, I was healthier... but I was wracked with insecurity, you know? Now I’m older and my problems are deeper... but I’m more equipped to handle them.

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& Celine: Memory is a wonderful thing if you don’t have to deal with the past.
    Jesse: “Memory is wonderful if you don’t have to deal with the past...” Can I put that on a bumper sticker? If you wrote a book about our night, that’s a good title.

& Celine: Little things. I think it’s the same with people. I see in them little details, so specific to each of them... that move me and that I miss and will always miss. You can never replace anyone... because everyone is made of such beautiful, specific details.

& Celine: You know, it’s so weird. People think they are the only one going through tough times.

& Jesse: I’m sure you’d make... Be a great mom someday.
    Celine: Really? You think so?
    Jesse: Yeah... a few antidepressants, you know, you’ll do great.

& Celine: Oh, I love my kitty. I love my kitty.
    Jesse: What’s his name?
    Celine: Che.
    Jesse: Che?
    Celine: What?
    Jesse: Commie.
    Celine: No, “che” in Argentina means “hey.”

& Celine: Is chamomile okay?
    Jesse: Yeah. Great. Merci.
    Celine: Messy? You think my apartment is messy?
    Jesse: No, no. Merci... Merci beaucoup.
    Celine: Ah, merci.

& Celine: I have three songs in English. One’s about my cat... one’s about my ex-boyfriend... Well, ex-ex-boyfriend... and there’s one about... Well, it’s just a little waltz.
    Jesse: A waltz? Play the waltz.

& Celine: Baby, you are gonna miss that plane.
    Jesse: I know.

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Chosen Path

Spartacus: Vengeance

Season 2 Episode 6

& Gannicus: You have cock to rival Jupiter himself. A few errant slaves amounts to flies circling a bull’s ass.
    Mira: Did he miss the part where we pulled the arena down on his head?
    Gannicus: Rome is propped up by more than a few wooden beams. If your cause is to see your lives cut short, then you march towards certain victory.
    Spartacus: Why did you choose to aid us, if you believe such?
    Gannicus: You mistake choice for repayment of a debt. One owed to Oenomaus. Absent it... we would not be breaking words.

& Lucretia: You forget your place!
    Ashur: No. I secure it.

& Gannicus: I chose not to kill you in the arena. And now my rudis, my freedom, is forever buried beneath its rubble.
    Spartacus: Freedom is not a stick of wood, to be presented as a bone to obedient dog. It is a thing all men deserve.

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& Spartacus: It was Glaber who condemned us to slavery. And I will not rest while he yet draws breath.
    Gannicus: This is the reason you provoke the Romans? For the memory of your woman?
    Spartacus: For love. The greatest cause of all.
    Gannicus: One that has dragged many a man to his ruin.

& Mira: You seek Donar’s affection now?
    Chadara: I seek only my place in this world.
    Mira: Then seize it with your own hands. Not by the spreading of your legs.

& Gannicus: The heaviest price is always paid by those we love.

& Seppia: You’re blessed, to hold such a man.
    Ilithyia: The gods grant only what is deserved.

& Naevia: There is no place that memory would not follow.

& Gannicus: Do you stay?
    Crixus: We do.
    Gannicus: Then I shall mourn your passing.
    Mira: Is it wise to let him go?
    Spartacus: Every man has a right to his own choice. Gannicus has made his.

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A Tale of Two Cities

Mad Men 6×10

& Megan: They’re supposed to be debating the war.
    Don: They can debate it all they want, they just can’t come out against it.
    Megan: Then no one will vote for Humphrey.
    Don: Over Nixon?

& Cutler: They don’t know our name because we don’t know our name.
    Don: Aren’t we SCDPCGC?

& Ted: I know that no one has observed the memo that requested specifically that all seven letters be used when answering the phone.
    Joan: Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce Cutler Gleason and Chaough? It’s a mouthful.
    Cutler: SCDPCGC is a mouthful. But CGCSCDP is not.

& Roger: We’ve each lost a partner. Why don’t we each lose a letter? SCDC.
    Pete: What do the Cs stand for?
    Cutler: Not Campbell.
    Roger: Cooper and Cutler.

& Roger: Be slick. Be glib. Be you.
    Don: Well, I’m usually informed.
    Roger: We’re conquistadors. I’m Vasco da Gama and you’re some other Mexican. We’re gonna land there, buy whatever they’ve got for the beads in our pockets. Our biggest challenge is to not get syphilis.

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& Cutler: I served in the Air Force. Did you?
    Michael: You’re disgusting, you know that? This whole thing works because people like you look the other way.
    Cutler: My politics are private. But that presentation isn’t. Now, are you gonna hide your dawdling behind your outrage?
    Michael: You’ll have your work and you know it. You can go in there and take credit for it like you always do. Be friendly and charming after you’ve stuck your fascist boot on my neck.
    Cutler: So I’m a fascist because I gave you a deadline?
    Michael: No, you’re a fascist because you love business and you hate everything else... freedom, blacks, Jews.
    Stan: This is my stop.
    Cutler: I hate hypocrites. Like hippies who cash checks from Dow Chemical and General Motors.
    Michael: You rooting for the Soviets in Prague, too, you Nazi?

& Hayes-Avon: And what is your job there?
    Joan: I’m in charge of thinking of things before people know they need them.

& Cutler: I was just coming to see you.
    Bob: But you’re not going anywhere.
    Cutler: I was, but then you appeared.
    Bob: At the risk of playing defense, I only interfered because I hate disrespect.
    Cutler: I don’t know what you’re talking about.
    Bob: Neither do I.

& Hayes-Avon: They don’t bring in a new guy unless they’re expanding or sales are flat. I’m afraid it’s the latter. Women are working. They’re not home. And hippies don’t wear makeup at all. I’m not sure if we should try to be “groovier” or nostalgic. We’re somewhere in between right now.

& Bob: Come on, buddy. You got a little stage fright. Maybe you smoked too many funny cigarettes.
    Michael: I never touch that stuff. It makes you crazy.
    Bob: I know what you’re feeling and it’s fear. But not fear of failure, fear of opportunity.
    Stan: I can’t watch this.

& Danny: You’re lucky I hate violence, man.
    Roger: Really? I love it. You know, I was a boxer. There’s nothing like finding that magic spot that’ll drop a man to his knees. You know, unless he’s already starting there...
    Danny: ... Hated to do that.

& Don: I don’t know what happened. I usually feel better out there.
    Roger: You’ve got to stop talking in the past. You know what I learned? New York is the center of the universe. We could send a landing craft out there, but they don’t understand what we do.
    Don: Or they understand it thoroughly.
    Roger: My shrink says the job of your life is to know yourself. Sooner or later, you’ll start to love who you are. And apparently I’m a curious child with a full head of hair and a thriving business... And you’re a terrible swimmer.

& Joan: Isn’t the point that Avon’s happy?
    Pete: Oh, I bet you’re making him very happy.
    Joan: Because it’s better than being screwed by you.

& Cutler: I’d like to offer what we believe to be a deferential solution.
They want to call the agency Sterling Cooper & Partners.
    Pete: Well, we know you like it.
    Ted: It would depend on Don, Jim, and me all sharing the blow.
    Don: You’re willing to do that?..
    Cutler: It’s the only thing that’s equally offensive to all.
    Don: SC ampersand P...

& Pete: Trust me, that name is a consolation prize. It’s a gravestone to our resistance. You have no idea what’s going on out there. This is not the same business anymore!
    Don: If you don’t like it, maybe it’s time to get out of the business...

& Pete: What are you doing?
    Stan: Working.

Janis Joplin — Piece of my heart

♪ Come on, come on ♪
♪ Come on, come on ♪
♪ Didn't I make you feel ♪
♪ Like you were the only man? ♪

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Second Truths

Continuum 2×6

& Emily: I’m a sucker for that kind of stuff but that version of time travel seems tragically flawed. There’s this self-consistency principle...
    Alec: Novacov?
    Emily: That’s it! Well, if you mess with the consistency of time, you create a paradox, right?
    Alec: And it’s impossible to create time paradoxes, mostly.
    Emily: We’re not going to talk about wormholes now, are we?
    Alec: I’m sorry, we’ll talk about shoes and the Kardashians for the rest of the night in gratitude for what just happened.
    Emily: Kardashian, is that some sort of Russian mathematician I don’t know? ... Are you ok?
    Alec: I’m just saving this moment, uploading to my hard drive.

& Kellogg: Why wait for the future, when the future came looking for you?

& Emily: Come out from behind the screen. And if that doesn’t work, let me come back there with you. Your life is yours to decide, Alec.
    Alec: I want you to come to the lab for dinner.
    Emily: You’re gonna cook? In a secret lab? I’m intrigued, Mr. Heisenberg.

& Dillon: There’s a hundred ways to serve, Kiera, you know that... He’s waiting for you. He’s got some interesting ideas.

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& Kiera: I don’t believe in coincidences anymore.
    Escher: Because your eyes have been opened.
    Kiera: Because there are agendas everywhere.

& Escher: You need a friend. And I can be a very effective one.
    Kiera: I’m pretty selective about the people I call friends.
    Escher: What about allies?
    Kiera: Tell me who you are. What you know. When you are from.

& Kiera: What if my interference makes it worse? Maybe the totals go up because I think I know something? Instead of 38 it becomes 138...

& Carlos: You want to explain to me how your murder spree is my fault?
    Eldridge: People do bad things. You stop them, make them pay for their transgressions. That makes you a hero. When I do the same, why does that make me a monster?

& Kiera: Let me explain...
Ω Finally!

& Carlos: ... So all of this, what, because you’re having delusions of being a psychic?
    Kiera: A time traveler.

& Kellogg: Oh, Christmas came early.
    Emily: Who are you?
    Kellogg: I’m the guy that pays the rent around here.

& Kiera: You believe me.
    Carlos: The only way you could have known what you know is if you were working with the killers. And that’s impossible. So if you eliminate the impossible, whatever is left over, however improbable... has got to be the truth.

& Carlos: Tell me everything.
    Kiera: ... My name is Kiera Cameron, and I came here from the year 2077.

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Charity Drive

Arrested Development 1×5

& Kitty: Permits weren’t filed.
    Michael: But my dad filed the permits before he went to jail.
    Kitty: He most certainly did not.
    Michael: So, I just lied to the investors?
    Kitty: You most certainly did.

& G.O.B.: Give me a Gob.
    George Michael: Gob!
    G.O.B.: No, I didn’t mean for you to yell my name at me. It’s what I call a double-dipped banana with everything on it.

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& Lucille: Oh, please. They didn’t sneak into this country to be your friends.

& Lindsay: If you’ll excuse me, I’ve got some nature to save.

& Cop: You’re under arrest...
    Michael: Ow! Ow!
    Cop: ...for the forced abduction of Helen Maria Delgado.
    Michael: .... What’d you do?
    George Michael: Just trying to be a good guy.
    Michael: Me too. Me too. Let’s go see Pop-Pop.

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Фред Сейберхэген — Заклятый враг

Берсеркер — 5

  “И вновь я, третий бытописатель кармпанской расы, благодарен людям Земли за то, что они защищали мой мир и множество других миров, предал перу ряд моих воспоминаний и видений. ...

&  Месть не знает ни временных, ни национальных границ.
     Во все века.

&  То, что никогда не сможет принести пользу, называется паникой.

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&  Поиск правды – смысл жизни человеческой.
     Да здравствуют те, для кого эта цель – свята!

  ... И его лошадь не один раз сбрасывала своего седока...”

Человек-Берсеркер (Берсеркер—4)

The Rains of Castamere

Game of Thrones 3×9

& Catelyn: If reinforcements arrive from King’s Landing before we take the castle... we’ll be caught between Tywin’s army and the sea.
    Robb: We’ll lose the war and die the way Father died. Or worse.
    Catelyn: Show them how it feels to lose what they love!

& Lord Frey: Don’t beg my forgiveness, Your Grace. It wasn’t me you spurned. It was my girls. One of them was supposed to be queen. Now none of them are... This is Arwyen my daughter. My daughter Walda, my daughter Derwa, my daughter Waldra. My eldest granddaughters Ginia and Neila. Serra and Sarra, granddaughters, twins. You could have had either... Could have had both for all I care. My granddaughter Marianne. My granddaughter Freya. My granddaughter... Wertha... Waldra... Waldina.
    Merry: I’m Merry.
    Lord Frey: Fine. And here’s my youngest daughter Shirei, though she hasn’t bled yet. Clearly you don’t have the patience for all that.

& Lord Frey: Love... That’s what the Starks of Winterfell call it, eh? Very honorable. I call it a pretty face. Mmm, very pretty. ... Your king says he betrayed me for love. I say he betrayed me for firm tits and a tight fit... And I can respect that. When I was your age, I’d have broken 50 oaths to get into that without a second thought.

& Daario: It’s a back gate. My men use it when they visit Yunkai’s bed slaves.
    Ser Jorah: Your men, but not you?
    Daario: I have no interest in slaves. A man cannot make love to property.

& Daario: You have a very suspicious mind. In my experience, only dishonest people think this way.

& Gilly: How do you know all that?
    Sam: I read about it in a very old book.
    Gilly: You know all that from staring at marks on paper?
    Sam: Yes.
    Gilly: You’re like a wizard.

& Clegane: Remember what happens to children who run.

& Arya: Don’t! Don’t kill him.
    Clegane: Dead rats don’t squeak.

& Arya: Don’t kill him. Please. Please don’t.
    Clegane: You’re very kind. Someday it’ll get you killed.

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& Jon Snow: We just take the horses and go. The old man’s no threat.
    Ygritte: He’s an old man. A spear through the heart’s a better way to die than coughing up your last with no one but your horses to hear.

& Arya: Someday I’m gonna put a sword through your eye and out the back of your skull.

& Jon Snow: You were right the whole time.

& Frey’s septon: In the sight of the Seven, I hereby seal these two souls, binding them as one for eternity. Look upon each other and say the words.
    — Father, Smith, Warrior, Mother, Maiden, Crone, Stranger...
    Lord Edmure: I am hers...
    Roslin Frey: I am his...
    Lord Edmure: and she is mine...
    Roslin Frey: and he is mine...
    — ...from this day until the end of my days.

& Daario: The city is yours, my queen.

& Lord Frey: Your Grace. The septon has prayed his prayers, some words were said, and Lord Edmure has wrapped my daughter in a cloak. But they are not yet man and wife. A sword needs a sheath. And a wedding needs a bedding. What does my sire say?

& Robb: It seems to me the father should have some say in his son’s naming.
    Talisa: Eddard... Don’t you want to teach little Ned Stark how to ride horses?
    Robb: I do.

& Frey’s guard: Where are you going?
    Clegane: Got salt pork for the feast.
    Frey’s guard: The feast is over.

& Catelyn: On my honor as a Tully, on my honor as a Stark, let him go or I will cut your wife’s throat!
    Lord Frey: .... I’ll find another.

Ω ...And silence. Perfect.

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Libertus

Spartacus: Vengeance

Season 2 Episode 5

& Varinius: Three of Spartacus’ most trusted men, their deaths to serve as warning to all who would challenge Rome! Their blood to be shed ad gladium by the warriors whose victories this day have earned them position in the primus! Yet who shall lead the forces of Rome? Who deserves such storied mantle?.. There stands but one! The only gladiator from this fair city to ever earn his freedom upon the sands! A true God of the Arena! I give you... Gannicus!

& Agron: What are your thoughts?
    Spartacus: These executions serve as message. That Rome will smother any flame that burns against it’s rule. I would send message of our own... One that will ignite the hearts of all yet enslaved.

& Ashur: I will see myself freed of bondage. At any cost.

& Mira: The boy cheats death. Perhaps it is a sign.
    Spartacus: We can not rely on omen. We must take strength in just cause, and bring it to bear.

& Spartacus: We have suffered wound and loss. We have been divided. Yet we are free. A thing beyond price. A thing I would see condemned brothers embrace once again. And in the doing of it, spread word to every slave yet beneath heel that even the mighty Republic bleeds when struck.

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& Rhaskos: They give us swords absent fucking edge.
    Oenemaus: Absent hope of victory as well.
    Crixus: Let us prove them fools for giving us swords at all.

& Gladiator: I have longed to share the sands with Gannicus, the greatest champion ever to enter the arena.
    Gannicus: There stand no champions here. Only men and their fates.

& Agron: I begin to question fucking plan.

& Spartacus: I have had my fill of games. Let us leave this arena forever.

& Glaber: We will survive this. Together. As husband and wife.

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Σ Such the intense!

Snitch

& John Matthews: I heard you’ve done this before. Undercover. You have any advises?
    Agent Cooper: Just be your self, John. You try to be something you’re not... their bloodhounds will smell it right away. You’re a family man, who’s trying to stay afloat. You have means they could use. That’s it, you hide in plain sight. Just keep doing what you doing. And they’ll believe it. Because it’s the truth.

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& Joanne Keeghan: You know the way this works. You follow the drugs, you get players. You follow the money, you get a ’kingpin’.

& Benicio: We counted every dollar. You’ll be responsible for it.

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Before Sunrise

& Jesse: Do you have any idea what they were arguing about?

& Celine: Have you heard that as couples age... they lose their ability to hear each other?
    Jesse: No.
    Celine: Supposedly, men lose their ability to hear high-pitched sounds... and women eventually lose hearing in the low end. I guess so they nullify each other.
    Jesse: I guess. Nature’s way of allowing couples to grow old together... without killing each other.

& Jesse: You know what? Not service oriented. Just an observation about Europe.

& Jesse: Think of it like this. Jump ahead 10, 20 years, okay? And you’re married. Only your marriage doesn’t have that same energy it used to have. You start to blame your husband. You think about all those guys you’ve met in your life... and what might’ve happened if you’d picked up with one of them. I’m one of those guys. That’s me. So think of this as time travel... from then to now to find out what you’re missing out on. What this could be is a gigantic favor... to you and your husband to find out you’re not missing anything. I’m just as big a loser as he is. Unmotivated. Boring. You made the right choice. You’re happy.

& Celine: You know, I’ve been wondering lately... do you know anyone who’s in a happy relationship?
    Jesse: Yeah, sure. You know, I know happy couples. But I think they lie to each other.
    Celine: Yeah. People can live their whole life as a lie. My grandmother was married... and I thought she had an uncomplicated love life. But she just confessed to me that she spent her whole life... dreaming about another man she was in love with. She just accepted her fate. It’s so sad. In the same time, I love that she had these emotions... and feelings I never thought she had.
    Jesse: I guarantee you it was better that way. If she’d known him, he’d have disappointed her eventually.
    Celine: How do you know?
    Jesse: I know. I know. People put romantic projections on everything. It’s not based in any kind of reality.

& Palm Reader: You’re both stars. Don’t forget. When the stars exploded billions of years ago... they formed everything that is this world. Everything we know is stardust. So don’t forget, you are stardust.

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& Jesse: You know what drives me crazy? People talking about... how great technology is, how it saves all this time. But what good is saved time if nobody uses it? If it just turns into more busy work. I never hear anybody say, “With the time I’ve saved using my word processor... I’m gonna go to a Zen monastery and hang out.” You don’t hear that.
    Celine: Time is so abstract anyway.

& Jesse: I kind of see love... as this escape for two people who don’t know how to be alone. It’s funny. People always talk about how... love is this totally unselfish, giving thing. But if you think about it, there’s nothing more selfish.

& Jesse: You know what’s the worst thing about somebody breaking up with you? It’s when you remember how little you thought about... the people you broke up with, and you realize... that that is how little they’re thinking about you. You’d like to think you’re both in pain... but really, they’re just, “Hey, I’m glad you’re gone.”

& Celine: I always feel this pressure of being... a strong and independent icon of womanhood... and not making it look like... my whole life is revolving around some guy. But loving someone... and being loved means so much to me. I always make fun of it and stuff... but isn’t everything we do in life... a way to be loved a little more?
    Jesse: I don’t know. Sometimes I dream... about being a good father and a good husband. And sometimes it feels really close. But then other times... it seems silly... like it would... ruin my whole life. And it’s not just a fear of commitment... or that I’m incapable of caring or loving because... I can. It’s just that, if I’m totally honest with myself... I think I’d rather die knowing... that I was really good at something. That I had excelled in some way... than that I’d just been in... a nice, caring relationship.

& Celine: I believe if there’s any kind of God... it wouldn’t be in any of us... not you or me... but just this little space in between. If there’s any kind of magic in this world... it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it’s almost impossible to succeed... but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt.

& Jesse: Everything is so finite. But don’t you think that’s what... makes our time and specific moments so important?

& Jesse: I know what you mean about wishing somebody wasn’t there. It’s just, usually, it’s myself... that I wish I could get away from. Seriously, think about this. I have never been anywhere... that I haven’t been. I’ve never had a kiss... when I wasn’t one of the kissers. You know, I’ve never... gone to the movies when I wasn’t there in the audience. I’ve never been out bowling if I wasn’t there... making some stupid joke. That’s why so many people hate themselves. Seriously. It’s just, they are sick to death... of being around themselves. Let’s say that you and I were together all the time. You’d start to hate a lot of my mannerisms. The way... the way every time that we would have people over... I’d be insecure, and I’d get a little too drunk. Or the way I tell the same stupid, pseudo-intellectual story... again and again. You see, I’ve heard all those stories... so of course I’m sick of myself. But being with you... it’s made me feel like I was somebody else. I mean, the only other way to lose yourself like that is... you know, dancing... or alcohol... or drugs, or stuff like that.
    Celine: Fucking.
    Jesse: Fucking, yeah. That’s one way.

& Celine: Do you know what I want?
    Jesse: What?
    Celine: To be kissed.
    Jesse: Well, I could do that.

& It’s like some male fantasy. Meet a French girl, fuck her and never see her again. And have this great story to tell.

& Celine: You don’t want to see me again?
    Jesse: No, of course I do. If somebody gave me the choice right now... of to never see you again or to marry you... I would marry you. Maybe that’s a lot of romantic bullshit... but people have gotten married for a lot less.

& Celine: When you talked earlier about after a few years... how a couple would begin to hate each other... by anticipating their reactions... or getting tired of their mannerisms. I think it would be the opposite for me. I think I can really fall in love when I know everything about someone. The way he’s gonna part his hair... which shirt he’s gonna wear that day... knowing the exact story he’d tell in a given situation. I’m sure that’s when I know I’m really in love.

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Σ Perfect movie.

Empty Hands

Spartacus: Vengeance

Season 2 Episode 4

& Varinius: We are politicians, are we not? Let us come to middle ground and see everyone satisfied. Choose a single man, and let us make sport of him in memory of your cousin.

& Varinius: What mortal dares defy the gods?
    Glaber: Only one who would draw their wrath.

& Varinius: First blood has been drawn! Who stands next?!.. Remember, do not cut too deep. I would not deprive everyone fair turn!

& Magistrate: Your wife does not shy from taking life...
    Ilithyia: That is how you sate desire, for love... or vengeance. Without hesitation.

---

& Marcus: Call the remaining squad.
    Ashur: It will not make a difference. Spartacus is possessed by the gods themselves-
    Marcus: Spartacus is here! Bear arms!
    Ashur: You will draw them to us!
    Marcus: And we will fight until the last drop of Roman blood-
    Ashur: I am not a Roman. And I will not fucking die this night.

& Glaber: Apologies for earlier doubt. This evening has proven most advantageous.
    Ilithyia: Yes. I long to see what dawn shall bring...

& Spartacus: Take Nasir. I will hold them back for as long as I am able.
    Mira: No. I stay by your side.

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Derek 1×0

Pilot

& Derek: My favourite thing on here is YouTube. My favourite YouTube thing is animals. And my favouritest animal thing is hamster on a piano. Listen.

& Hannah: Do it subtly. Ask him his favourite films, and see if he’s gay or not. But be subtle. Just bring it up.
    Derek: .... My, um, friend Hannah, um... she says you might be gay, right, but you mustn’t... and she wants to know, but to not tell her, but if you just tell me your favourite TV programmes and films, then she’ll know if you’re gay or not.
    Tom: OK. Tell her I love Glee, I think it’s fab. Tell her The Wizard Of Oz is my favourite film cos of Judy Garland. And that I love her daughter, Eliza, as well. Tell her my absolute favourite is Audrey Hepburn, cos that girl had class. And if she likes all of them, you tell her from me, ’Hmm-mm, you go, girl!’ Can you do that?
    Derek: Yeah.
    Tom: Do it for me.
    Derek: ’Hmm-mm!’

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& Dougie: Average age is about 85 up there. Some of them up there are knackered. I don’t know at what point you can say a life is ended, cos some of them don’t move. You know, their knees have gone, their backs have gone, their eyes have gone, their ears have gone. Jack, with his hearing aid, battery on the side of his head, battery runs out, I don’t see the point of putting a new battery in.
    Derek: But what would you do, if you was Jack and somebody said, “It’s not worth it”, what would you say? “No, I need a battery, please.” What would you do if you was old, like a tortoise, and someone said, “Don’t bother with him, he’s 100...” I’d save you.

& Derek: She’d tap me on the head... She’d go, “It’s all right,” and it’d make me feel better straightaway. Like magic. And she said, “Kindness is magic, Derek.” She said it’s more important to be kind than clever or good-looking. I’m not clever or good-looking, but I’m kind.

--
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Crocodile

Dexter 1×2

& Debra: Why is it we never talk brother-sister stuff?
    Dexter: Our dad was a cop. You’re a cop. I work for the cops. For us, this is brother-sister stuff.

& Dexter: I like puzzles. But there’s nothing more frustrating than putting a puzzle together and finding then it still doesn’t make sense.

& Prosecutor: How long have you been doing blood-spatter analysis?
    Dexter: Almost twelve years.
    Prosecutor: You’ve been involved in quite a few cases, then.
    Dexter: 2,103.
    Prosecutor: Give or take.
    Dexter: No, 2,103.
    Prosecutor: Then it’s safe to say blood is your life.
    Dexter: ... Safe to say.

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& Dexter: I see their pain. On some level, I even understand their pain. I just can’t feel their pain.

& Rita: Tell me about your day.
    Dexter: I had court... You know, the blood thing. And then a crime scene and more blood.
    Rita: I don’t know how you do it.
    Dexter: Well, blood is... my life... my job.

& Dexter: In slaughterhouses, they stun the animals before butchering them. It’s the humane thing to do. Those animals, they’re the lucky ones.

& Dexter: The worst thing about finally putting together a puzzle is finding there are missing pieces.

& Dexter: There are no secrets in life, just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface.

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The Art of War

The Borgias 1×8

& Cesare: You know me, brother. I disapprove of lechery, debauchery, drunkenness.
    Juan: Which is why our father made you the cardinal.
    Cesare: Why, then, did he make you a duke?
    Juan: Because lechery and debauchery are the very marks of nobility.

& General: We have pikes for 2,000 footmen, lances for 1,000 horse, bows for 1,500 bowmen... if we can find the soldiers to wield them.
    Borgia: What about cannon?
    General: Nobody worthy in the art of war ever uses cannons.
    Borgia: I have heard it rumored that the French do.
    General: And I have heard that they are vulgarians, my lord.
    Borgia: Their cannon was vulgar, indeed, when they brought Lucca to its knees.

& Juan: I have a stratagem, Holy Father, to outwit their cannon.

& Cesare: Will the good Lord see the justice in our cause, Micheletto?
    Micheletto: Where warfare is concerned, Your Eminence, our good Lord will take a holiday.

& Juan: My God.
    General: So our stratagem was, Gonfaloniere, a feint to their left.
    Juan: But I can see no left...
    General: Or right...
    Juan: Their army fills the whole horizon.

---

& King Charles VIII: The pikes of our infantry are 12 feet long. Can you see them there, my dear?
    Lucrezia: Why are the blades hooked so, my lord?
    King Charles VIII: So they can tear out the guts of their opponents. But we begin battle with the cannon.
    Lucrezia: The cannon?
    King Charles VIII: Yes. Never risk a man until you’ve used your artillery. Learned that against the English.

& Lucrezia: Would you survive this day, dear Juan?
    Juan: We have a battle to fight!
    Lucrezia: Believe me, you have lost it already.
    Juan: It has hardly begun.
    Lucrezia: I have heard one roar of cannon. A hundred more and your whole army will be dead and bleeding. And you have yet to see their pikes.
    Juan: I will not accept defeat!
    Lucrezia: Then do not call it that. Call it common sense.

& Lucrezia: It was my brother, Your Highness!
    King Charles VIII: Your brother?
    Lucrezia: The Gonfaloniere of the papal armies. He thought you meant to sack Rome. Like the Goths and Vandal hordes. I told him you were a gentleman. You had no such idea. You had no such idea, had you?
    King Charles VIII: No such idea.
    Lucrezia: Your goal is Naples.
    King Charles VIII: Naples... Of course.
    Lucrezia: So, my brother, the Duke of Gandia, the Gonfaloniere of the papal armies, bids you welcome to Rome.

& Cardinal Sforza: You could ride with us, Holy Father, to the safety of Ostia.
    Borgia: Our place is here. As is yours, Cardinal Sforza.
    Cardinal Sforza: You should leave, Holy Father.
    Borgia: We will stay here. And we shall be here when you return. IF you return.

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Death, on a Pale Horse

The Borgias 1×7

& French General: Tell me, Cardinal, what is the Italian for cannon?
    Della Rovere: We have no such word, General.
    French General: For gunpowder?.. Recoil? Battery? Cannonball? Ordnance?
    Della Rovere: I’m at a loss.
    French General: You will need a new language then.

& Cesare: A happy accident?
    Lucrezia: Yes. God is good.
    Cesare: But he will recover?
    Lucrezia: Unfortunately, yes.
    Cesare: You are no longer a child, Sis... I won’t forgive him for that.
    Lucrezia: There was a reason for my marriage, Brother. Remind me of it.

& Ursula Bonadeo: You have a power, Cardinal Cesare Borgia, a strength, a destiny that even you don’t recognize. ... You can use that strength for good or for ill but I have no doubt it will be used, and the whole of Italy will be changed by it.

---

& Della Rovere: But what can justify such carnage?
    King Charles VIII: It is war, Cardinal, plain and simple.
    Della Rovere: They would have surrendered to you, readily.
    King Charles VIII: As the whole of Italy will surrender to me now.

& Borgia: We will bear no more opposition to our word.
    Cardinal Sforza: Then you must excommunicate half of Christendom.
    Borgia: Indeed.
    Cardinal Sforza: Because half of the world is against us.
    Borgia: We will not tolerate this heresy! This apostasy! This is the chair of St. Peter’s! We are the voice of the Living God! We will occupy this chair until our death, and the fires of Hell shall rain down on those who would oppose us! We are, all of us... about to be sorely tested. And you... are either with us... or against us.

& Giovanni Sforza: Forgive me... for speaking so plainly. But understand that if Florence admits the French armies, then the Sforza arms may march with France.
    Lucrezia: It is unwise, my lord, to upset me thus...

& Della Rovere: I’ve heard rumors that the whole of Florence could be excommunicated if this city is surrendered to French arms.
    Machiavelli: Well, then, perhaps that depends on one’s definition of surrender.

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Children of Men

Revolution 1×19

& Neville: Women... Am I right?

& Miles: Probably got an entire army waiting for us, not to mention Monroe himself. But, what the hell? Just another Monday, right?

& Flynn: This was the crown jewel of the U.S. military. Impervious to everything, including the blackout. It’s fully powered. Nothing we can’t do from here.
    Monroe: Such as?
    Flynn: You can spy on anyone in the world. Listen to anything they’re saying, or... kill them. All with the push of a button.

& Miles: Aaron, what’s the holdup?
    Aaron: It’s a 62-character override code, okay? It’s gonna take a minute.

---

& Rachel: I want you to die.
Monroe: So much that you want to die too?
    Rachel: I haven’t made that clear?
    Monroe: You’re lying. Now trust me, Rachel. I know something about this. You know, every so often some poor sap... Jumps from a bridge, trying to off himself, but he survives. And when you talk to them after... To a man, they all say the same thing... The moment they jumped, they regretted it, which means the successful ones do too. The moment they open their wrist, kick loose that chair, the last thought that goes through their mind is, “I made a mistake.”

& Monroe: How about we actually get out of here alive? Then you can get back to trying to kill me.

& Nora: I’ve never seen a gun do that.
    Aaron: They’re coil guns. They use electromagnets instead of gunpowder. It’s real Area 51 stuff. I saw it Mythbusters.

& Neville: The only thing wrong with the Monroe Republic is Monroe himself.

& Monroe: Hello, Charlotte. ... A “thank you” would be nice.

& Monroe: Miles! So, you ready to settle this? Once and for all?
Ω Exactly. Why do they need NOT to settle this? Once and for all?

& Grace: If she turns the power on, maybe she saves the world... Or maybe she sets it on fire.
    Aaron: Rachel?

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Лоис Макмастер Буджолд — Союз капитана Форпатрила

Криоожог (Сага о Форкосиганах—15 (14))

Сага о Форкосиганах — 16

  “В дверь Айвена позвонили, когда по комаррскому времени была почти полночь. ...

&  – Первое правило съёма девушек: пока она смеется, ты жив.

&  Сколько деталей должны совпасть, прежде чем можно будет допустить, что все они указывают в верном направлении? Наверное, зависит от того, как дорого может стоить ошибка.

&  Как там любит говорить Майлз? "Никогда не мешай врагу, пока он совершает ошибку".

&  Фано показал на стул по другую сторону стола. – Прошу вас, садитесь.
     Ага, он пытается заявить психологический контроль над пространством – стандартный прием при допросе в замкнутом помещении.

&  Имперская служба может выиграть войну и без кофе, но предпочитает не попадать в такие ситуации.

&  «Да, это самый лучший вариант. Говорить правду.
     Просто не всю».

&  Стратегия «вали всю вину на отсутствующих» неизменно приносит успех.

&  "Головоломки. Ненавижу головоломки". Айвен любил блок-схемы – славные и понятные, по ним всегда видно, где ты находишься сейчас и что делать дальше, и все аккуратно расставлено в ряд. Никаких неопределенностей. Никаких ловушек. Почему жизнь не может походить на блок-схему?

---

&  Время. Оно уносит лучшие шансы твоей жизни.

&  К каждому подарку прилагается ценник.

&  Солнечный день – это лишь иллюзия, эффект преломления света в атмосфере, а за ней лежит бесконечная, вечная ночь.

&  Не стоит мутить воду, пока та спокойна.

&  Иллиан вышиб из меня ученую многословность еще в те времена, когда я писал для него первые отчеты как аналитик СБ. Научил меня АзБуКе СБшника – «Аккуратно. Буквально. Кратко». Хотя он и говорил, что приятно получать отчеты, в которых ему не приходится править грамматику и правописание.

&  – Майлз, когда его планам что-то мешает, начинает беситься и рваться вперед. А я обычно предпочитаю подождать. Пока ждешь, в голову может прийти какая-нибудь удачная мысль, а если прождать подольше – то и проблема способна сама собою рассосаться. Тогда и делать ничего не придется. Если только окружающие не станут в нее лезть.

&  – Эта история звучит очень по-барраярски: все бессмысленно, тщетно и досадно...

&  вполне стандартная процедура: предоставить подозреваемому свободу действий, чтобы тот привел наблюдателей к своим сообщникам.

&  Интересно, почему никто не замечает, что каждая новая подружка означает расставание с предыдущей?

&  Общий восторг – штука заразительная.

&  Папа всегда предупреждал Теж: если что-то слишком хорошо, чтобы оказаться правдой, то, скорее всего, это правда и есть.

&  Наверное, лишь любовь способна дать тебе больше того, на что ты уже согласился.

&  Если ты с презрением отвергаешь чудо лишь потому, что оно свершилось слишком просто, то дождешься ли другого?

&  – Есть два возможных подхода к разрешению проблемы, в юриспруденции и не только: начать с фактов и перейти к следствиям из них, или начать с желаемого результата и вернуться, пройдя необходимые для его достижения шаги.

&  В истории всегда самым интересным является выяснение вопроса "о чем думали эти люди?"

&  Когда приказы летят с самого верха, то к земле они успевают набрать изрядный импульс.

  ... Айвен погладил ступней ногу Теж, от щиколотки и выше, и отдал все внимание нынешнему мгновению.”

Джентльмен Джоул и Красная Королева (Сага о Форкосиганах—17)

Dexter

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* - Самые страшные убийцы — это те, кто полагает, что жертвы заслуживали такой участи. Главы стран уничтожали целые поколения по тем же самым мотивам.
— Но для убийства все равно не может быть оправдания.
— Нет. Конечно, кроме одного. Спасение невинной жизни.
* Я Добро? Или Зло? Я перестал задавать эти вопросы. У меня нет на них ответов. А есть ли они вообще?
* - Дорогая Рита, когда-то ты была лишь мечтой, а сейчас наше будущее безоблачно, как небо над Майами, и я клянусь, что: Такое ощущение, что я женюсь на единороге.
* - Хочешь посидеть у меня на коленях и попросить что-нибудь на Рождество?
— Нет, спасибо. Не хочу потом по венерологам бегать.
* Сегодня я оденусь как обычно — брюки, рубашка и притворство.
* - Говорят, есть 7 стадий горя. Наверно, убить кого-то голыми руками в мужском туалете, мой способ пройти стадию гнева. И каким бы ни были остальные стадии, на них у меня нет времени. Теперь я папа на полную ставку.
* Нам всем есть, что скрывать. Что то, что мы не хотим показвать остальным. И мы притворяемся, что всё хорошо, прячемся за радугой. И может это к лучшему. Некоторые закоулки души лучше не видеть никому.
* - При всем уважении, этот мужчина — рыцарь в сияющих доспехах. Вы должны ему копье полировать!
* Я могу убить человека, расчленить его тело и успеть домой к шоу Летермана, но я понятия не имею, что делать, если моя девушка чувствует себя неуверенно.
* - Ну вот представь: ты мясник из Бей-Харбор. Как бы ты избавился от тел, чтобы их не нашли?
— Миллионы вариантов. Болота, аллигаторы, свинофермы, серная кислота, молотилки, мусоросжигатели, черт, да хоть шаурма.
* Это не мнение, это — наука. А наука — бессердечная стерва с 14-дюймовым страпоном.
* Я вижу, что людям всегда нужны взаимоотношения: дружба или любовь. Но эти связи всегда ведут к неприятным осложнениям: обязательства, необходимость делиться, просьба подбросить в аэропорт:
* Мне нравится быть тут, с тобой. Ты единственная, кого ненавидят больше, чем меня.
* - Не знаю, он очень мужественный человек. У него не хватает частей тела из-за этого ледяного засранца, а он все равно ко мне кадриться!
— Это потому, что мужики думают одной частью тела. Эту ему не отрезали.
* - И вообще, почему ты такой спокойный?
— Я преуспел в психической фрагментации.
* Мы идем туда, куда ведет нас след, даже если приходится идти по грязи.
* Какой кретин будет носить шерстяной костюм в разгар лета в Майами? Нацисты. Вот кто. Это все, чтобы нас унизить.
* Никогда не понимал, что такого в супер-героях. Но в последнее время мне кажется, у нас много общего: трагическое начало жизни, скрывать свою личность, получеловек, полумутант, заклятые враги.
* - Хорошие часы! Made in China?
— Никаких подделок! Почку продал, чтобы купить. Хочешь как-нибудь покажу шрам?
— Лучше отдам свою, чтоб ты его не показывал.
* Ядреные пасатижи!!!
* - Йоу, Квин. Сиськи, бухло, стрип-бар?
— Не могу, занят.
— А ты, Морган, пока твоего хахаля нет в городе?
— Очень заманчиво, Масука, и как тактично. Отъ***сь и сдохни. А потом ещё раз сдохни.
— Как я понял, это значит <Нет>.
* Если всё идет хорошо, видимо Боженька так говорит <Подстрахуйся, потому что скоро случится жопа>.
* Фу! я в платье! чувствую себя трансвеститом!
* ...орущая, плачущая машинка по производству какашек! (о ребенке)

Dexter 1×1

& Dexter: Tonight's the night. And it's going to happen again and again... has to happen.

& Debra: How does someone so dumb get so much power?
    Dexter: She knows how to play the game. You could take a lesson.
    Debra: In what, ass-kissing?
    Dexter: Politics.

& Dexter: You can’t get so emotionally invested.
    Debra: You always say that.
    Dexter: So did dad.
    Debra: Yeah, but he also said, “go after what you want.”

& Dexter: This is unique.
    Angel: No shit. And no prints, either.
    Dexter: I’ve never seen such clean, dry, neat-looking dead flesh. Wonderful. Very clean.

& Doakes: Where the hell you been?
    Dexter: Crime scene.

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& Dexter: The problem with eating and driving, which I love to do, is not being able to employ the 10:00-2:00 hand position on the wheel. It’s a matter of public safety. But there’s always a sacrifice.

& Harry: You’re a good kid, Dex. You are. Otherwise, it would have been a lot worse than animals. Okay? We can’t stop this. But maybe... We can do something to channel it. Use it for good.
    Dexter: How could it ever be good?
    Harry: Son, there are people out there who do really bad things. Terrible people. And the police can’t catch them all. Do you understand what I’m saying?
    Dexter: You’re saying they deserve it.
    Harry: That’s right. But, of course, you have to learn how to spot them, how to cover your tracks. But I can teach you.

& Harry: You can’t help what happened to you, but you can make the best of it. Remember this forever... you are my son, you are not alone, and you are loved.

& LaGuerta: Tell me, Dexter, how did you get to be so smart, huh?
    Dexter: Mm... Lots of sleep.

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The French King

The Borgias 1×6

& Giovanni Sforza: I see now that nobility springs from the soul... not from the blood. I forgive you the accident of your family name.
    Lucrezia: I must... accept your forgiveness, then, my lord, for the... accident of my Borgia blood.

& Giulia Farnese: You find the art of politics more engrossing than...
    Borgia: Than the art of love?
    Giulia Farnese: Did I say that?
    Borgia: They have more in common than you might think.
    Giulia Farnese: I would doubt that.
    Borgia: Let us take... your most elegant leg. A perfect metaphor for Italian politics. Here... we have France, the source of all disquiet. But travelling south across the Alps... we find the dukedom of Milan... And below her, Florence. And here, this little mound... is Rome. But Naples... is your elegant calf... your exquisite ankle... your heel... your sole... and your most delicious toe. Now lying here... it may not seem important. But try to stand, and you’ll find that all your balance comes from here.
    Giulia Farnese: Naples.
    Borgia: Hmm. Naples. But now... I’m going to invade... fair France.

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& Charles VIII: You want me to march to Rome, depose that Borgia, give you the papal crown, in the hope that you’ll place the crown of Naples on this ugly head?
    Della Rovere: I want to restore the Universal Church to her former dignity.
    Charles VIII: Couldn’t this Borgia do the same?
    Della Rovere: Restore the Church?
    Charles VIII: Place the Crown of Naples on this ugly noggin.
    Della Rovere: Noggin?
    Charles VIII: Head.

& Ursula: You were ordained a priest, and yet you blaspheme thus.
    Cesare: If appreciation of your beauty is blasphemy, consider me a blasphemer indeed. A blasphemer and a heretic.

& Charles VIII: You would entice me to battle... but do you understand what that means?
    Della Rovere: It means a just war, in defense of Christendom.
    Charles VIII: No war is just. War is chaos, brute force mustered against brute force, until one side is destroyed, utterly. I have read of your Italian battles... Hired mercenaries, on feathered horseback, prancing like peacocks one against the other until one side retires, with something called honor? Heh! But there is no honor in war. The French learned that against the English. There is blood, death, armor against armor, until one side surrenders, in death or domination. Be careful what you pray for Cardinal, if you pray for war. You will find yourself in a place beyond prayer itself.

& Lucrezia: I find the more confined husbands become the more... tolerable. I could write a book about it... Perhaps I will.

& Lucrezia: I hate her.
    Cesare: If you hate beauty, dear sis, you must hate yourself.
    Lucrezia: All right. I will love her then. But deep down, somewhere, I still hate her.

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Bullet to the Head

& Jimmy: I got no problem with cats. I don’t like dander.
    Louis: So you almost roll your car trying not to hit one out of 600 million cats in the world?
    Jimmy: It’s bad luck killing a cat.

& Taylor: Wait, wait, wait, wait. What kind of doctor are you?

& Taylor: How am I supposed to trust you?
    Jimmy: I don’t know. Why don’t you read some fucking tea leaves?.. That might work. You know, I save your life, I get your wound fixed. Now what do you want, a ring?

& Taylor: You know, I could use this as a weapon? I could jam your throat, hit your temple. And, bang, you’d be toast.
    Jimmy: And I just sit there, right?
    Taylor: Yeah, I could break this glass and use it as a cutting edge. Never see me coming. Or I could use the lithium battery to poison your drink. You know, drop it in your coffee. You won’t even taste it.
    Jimmy: And I can kill you with this piece of apple.
    Taylor: Yeah, right. How would you do that?
    Jimmy: Distraction.

& Jimmy: Guns don’t kill people... bullets do.

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& Taylor: You still did enough fucked up shit to spend the rest of your life in prison.
    Jimmy: That ain’t gonna happen, but I like your spirit, that Samurai thing, it’s nice.
    Taylor: First of all, Samurai is Japanese, I’m Korean.
    Jimmy: Got it.
    Taylor: That’s like me saying my favorite Italian food are tacos.
    Jimmy: ... That’s kind of a stupid analogy.

& Taylor: Just let me handle the questioning, okay? It’s what I do for a living. There’s got to be a method to it, you know? It’s psychology, you get him to lower his guard. One sentence at a time, build a rhythm... It’s a lot like music.
    Jimmy: Break his fucking legs, he’ll give you a Who concert.

& Morel: Never trust anyone who doesn’t care enough about money.

& Morel: You see, Mr Keegan fancies himself as a hero. Well, guess what? In classical literature, the hero dies.

& Keegan: You don’t have to do this.
    Morel: When I want your opinion, I’ll buy you a brain.

& Jimmy: Are we gonna fight, or you plan on boring me to death?

& Jimmy: What are we, fucking Vikings?

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