Me? I was waiting to become a man, waiting to get away. Just to go away. But the memory of that summer is like a dream to me, a dream of music that is both heard and imagined, that seems to be both itself and its own echo. When I remember it, I think of it as dancing. Dancing as if language had...
We never saw them again. They vanished without a trace. Years later I learned that they ended as shadows on the streets of London, scraping a living together, dying alone.
Dancing at Lughnasa
Westerners cannot play chess because they play too much poker. If they played chess, they would understand. There are no bluffs, only calculations.
Ahmat, in Five Fingers
Yvonne: Where were you last night?
Rick: That's so long ago, I don't remember.
Yvonne: Will I see you tonight?
Rick: I never make plans that far ahead.
Casablanca, 1942
Doctor: Beats me, I don't know what keeps him going.
Detective: Will he be able to talk any more?
Doctor: He's dead now, except he's breathing.
The Killers, 1946
Eli: Even if you don't know something, it's faith. It's faith. In the field of darkness, that's giving me the strength to carry on. You understand?
Solara: Is that from your book?
Eli: No, it's Johnny Cash, live at Folsom Prison.
The Book of Eli
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