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«I don't want the world, just your half.» They Might Be Giants, lyrics to "Ana Ng", in their Lincoln album.
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«She's just like any other kind of woman, only more so.» Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep (1946).
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«I even like the cork.» Jim Backus, from one of his comedy routines.
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«It's gonna take a hundred thoughts to make this one disappear.» Poe, lyrics to "Terrible Thought".
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«Sometimes, I guess there just aren't enough rocks.» Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump, talking to Jenny in Forrest Gump (1994).
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«That's a good looking gun you were about to use back there. Can I see it? Maybe you'd like to see mine...
...Nice, awful nice. You know, there are only two things more beautiful than a good gun: a Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere. You ever had a good Swiss watch?» John Ireland to Montgomery Clift in Red River (1948).
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«It is a kind of love that comes to children before they know its meaning.» Lord Marchmain's mistress, Cara, to Charles Ryder in Evelyn Waugh's novel, Brideshead Revisited.
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«He had a mind like Aristotle, and a form like mortal sin.» Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter (1968).
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«She tried to sit on my lap while I was standing up.» Humphrey Bogart, describing how Martha Vickers had met him in The Big Sleep (1946).
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«I just wish you had know me before my medication was adjusted.» The New Yorker, cartoon caption, man talking to woman on their first date.
Junk Drawers
«What's that blue thing doing here?» They Might Be Giants, song title, in their Apollo 18 album.
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«Alison, will you be my first wife?» The New Yorker, cartoon caption, two kids on a date in an elegant restaurant.
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«You! Yes, you! Stand still, laddie!» Alex McAvoy as Teacher in Pink Floyd The Wall (1982).
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«Me? I'm not picky, whatever's wounded.» The New Yorker, cartoon caption, two lions talking as they walk down a jungle path.
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«Aren't you the guy who hit me in the eye?» They Might Be Giants, lyrics to "Fingertips", in their Apollo 18 album.
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«I made him pay for what he wants. You make him pay for what he doesn't want.» Paulette Goddard as Miriam Aarons in The Women (1939).
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«She's got those eyes that run up and down a man like a searchlight.» Dennie Moore as Olga the manicurist in The Women (1939).
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«You don't look like a man who'd be interested in first editions.» Librarian Carole Douglas to Humphrey Bogart in The Big Sleep (1946).
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«Of course he has a knife. He always has a knife. We all have knives. It's 1183 and we're barbarians!» Katharine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter (1968).
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«I've had a request...nonetheless, here's another song.» The New Yorker, cartoon caption, night club singer, addressing his audience.
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«If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to. It's been my life's work.» Marie Dressler as Carlotta in Dinner at Eight (1933).
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«Narcissus, is there someone else?» The New Yorker, cartoon caption, girl to boy in ancient Rome, as toga-clad boy gazes listlessly at his reflection in a pool.
Drawer 3A: Contemporary quotations
