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2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER
HER: THE PARIS REGION
On August 19th an act was published...
...concerning the governmental organization of the Paris region
Two days later, Paul Delouvrier...
...was appointed Prefect of the Paris region...
...which, according to the official communiqué...
...now became a new and distinct administrative unit
Her: She is Marina Vlady, an actress

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She is wearing a midnight blue sweater with two yellow stripes
She is of Russian origin
Her hair is dark auburn or light brown, I'm not sure
Yes, speak as though quoting the truth
Old father Brecht said that...
...that actors should quote
Now she is turning her head to the right, but that's not important
Her: She is Juliette Janson, who lives here
She is wearing a midnight blue sweater with two yellow stripes
Her hair is dark auburn or light brown, I'm not sure

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She is of Russian origin
Two years ago in Martinique... just like a Simenon novel
I don't know which one... oh, yes, Banana Tourists
I've got to manage somehow
I think Robert earns 1,100 francs a month
Now she has turned her head to the left, but that's not important
I conclude that the Gaullist government...
...under a mask of modernization and reform...
...is merely regularizing the natural tendencies of capitalism
Also that, in systemizing planning and centralization...

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...the government is further disrupting the nation's economy...
...not to mention its basic moral fibre
18 LESSONS ON INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
I'm just looking at the floor, that's all
I can feel the tablecloth
- It's fantastic! - What can you hear?
The Saigon-Washington circuit
- Who's talking? - Johnson
Johnson? What's he saying?
In 1965, to force Hanoi to negotiate...

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...it was with a heavy heart that I ordered...
...my pilots to bomb North Vietnam
It was tremendous...
...but Hanoi would not negotiate
In 1966, again with a heavy heart...
...I ordered my pilots to bomb Haiphong and Hanoi
Let me listen
It was tremendous, but Hanoi would not negotiate
In July, 1967, still with a heavy heart...
...I ordered my pilots to destroy Chinese nuclear bases

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It was tremendous, but Hanoi would not negotiate
In 1967, to force Hanoi to negotiate...
...and still with a heavy heart...
...I ordered my pilots to bomb Peking
It was tremendous, but Hanoi would not negotiate
Now, my missiles are aimed at Moscow
President Johnson says that Hanoi must understand...
...his patience has limits
Damn, I can't hear now
Would you like me to wear tights designed to look like knee-socks?

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They make daring dresses decent... and flatter young, slender legs
Stop talking rubbish
- "Madame Express" says so - Never heard of her
You're so unsophisticated
Now it's the American generals
They say they want to send the Vietnamese back to the Stone Age
"Stone" means the same as pierre, doesn't it?
How did you pay for your Mini?
Juliette found it; she has a real nose for bargains
Dear George Washington, what madness made you a William Pitt?

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Pax Americana: Jumbo-sized brain-washing
A sort of "message from beyond" thing
I was doing the dishes
I started to cry
I heard a voice saying: "You are indestructible"
I, me, myself, everybody
I don't know really... it's so confused
I don't really know what time is
It may not be definable
Roger is leaving

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We often try to analyse the meaning of words...
...but are too easily led astray
One must admit that there's nothing simpler...
...than taking things for granted
Undoubtedly, the planning of the Paris region...
...will favour the government's policy of class discrimination...
...and allow the monopolies to shape the economy...
...without reference to the needs of its eight million inhabitants
The eyes are the body...
...and sound is...

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Do you ever dream, mummy?
- You'll be late for school - But I want to know
In my dreams I used to feel that I was being sucked into a huge hole
Now I feel I'm being scattered in a thousand pieces
Before, even if it was a slow process, I would wake up all at once
Now I'm afraid there'll be pieces missing
I had a dream last night, you know
I was walking all alone at the edge of a cliff
The path was only wide enough for one person
Suddenly, I saw two twins walking towards me

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I wondered how they would get past
Suddenly, one of the twins went towards the other...
...and they became one person
And then I realized that these two people...
...were North and South Vietnam being united
What is language, mummy?
Language is the house man lives in
ON CLASS:
FURTHER LESSONS ON INDUSTRIAL SOCIETIES
Electricity, Madame. Where is the meter?

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I'm afraid it's fifty francs
Enjoying facilities they never had before...
...people use gas and hot water, without thinking of the bill to come
This means money for the rent...
...or else doing without TV, a car, or holidays
A change from their usual standards, in other words
Only seven more minutes
I've brought you Solange, Monsieur Gérard
Aren't you forgetting something?
This is all I have, but I'll do better next week

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Only three more minutes
Can we come in?
I'm a bit short
Go over there with the other children
Come and play. Let's read a story
Picky Pouc is walking by a river
There, hatching her eggs...
...Madame Pelican...
Always the same story:
She trains as a dressmaker and is hired by a small firm

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She meets a boy, gets pregnant, he leaves her
Next year, another guy, same thing
At the maternity home she gets sermons...
...but also useful tips on how to support two kids
So she does her job by day, and becomes a prostitute at night
One day a nice guy falls in love with her and marries her
They set up house
Too expensive, of course. A third kid arrives
And the husband asks her to go on the streets
Is it cotton?

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Have you dresses like this?
I finish at seven; I'm meeting Jean-Claude at eight
We'll eat, then go to the pictures
Yes, I know how to talk
Let's talk together
Together is a word I like
Together means thousands of people, perhaps a whole city
No one knows what the city of the future will be like
Part of the wealth of meaning it once had will undoubtedly be lost
Undoubtedly

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Maybe
The creative and formative roles of the city...
...will be taken over by other forms of communication
Maybe... television and radio...
Vocabulary and syntax, consciously and deliberately
No lunch yet and it's three
Navy-blue Shetland sweaters
A new language is needed
I got up at eight o'clock. I have hazel eyes
PYSCHOLOGY OF FORMS

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May I try this on?
In this room there is some blue, red and green
Yes, I'm quite sure
My sweater is blue
White should suit you
I'd like a cotton dress with sleeves
Because I can see it's blue
But what if blue had been called green by mistake?
This is fine, but... When do you close?
- Seven - Keep it for me

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I can't do that. You'll have to see the...
Will you put this aside while I go to the bank?
- Very well, but only until six - I'll be back before six
That's why my feelings haven't always a specific object
Desire, for instance
Sometimes you know the object of your desire, sometimes not
For instance, I feel I'm missing something, but don't know what...
...or else I feel afraid with nothing to fear
Does any expression...
...not refer to a specific object?

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Oh, yes... order, logic
For instance, something may make me cry, but...
...the reason for my tears is not contained...
...in their traces on my cheeks
In other words...
...you can describe what happens when I do something...
...without necessarily indicating...
...what makes me do it
I'll be back at six
I examine the city, its inhabitants, and the bonds between them...

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...as closely as a biologist examines...
...the relations between individual and race in evolution
Only thus can I tackle problems of social pathology...
...and formulate the hope for a genuine new city
To define myself, one word: Indifference
How are you?
I arrived this morning. I'm waiting for Jean-Paul
I'm staying until this evening
I see you have new shoes
I live in the big block near the Autoroute du Sud

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I come to Paris twice a month
You know: The big blue and white buildings
- They're American shoes - To trample Vietnamese with
To trample South Americans, too
We've met i think. Consider my offer, I only take 10%
You don't say
- Heard about Isabelle? - Yes, a razor-slashing
You're not scared?
The war's over, and anyway I'm only doing this temporarily... I hope
This is how Juliette, at 3.37 p.m., watched the turning pages...

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...of that object known in journalese as a magazine
And this is how, 150 frames later, another young woman, her twin...
...saw the same object. Where, then, is the truth?
Full-face or profile? But first, what is an object?
Perhaps it is a link enabling us...
...to pass from one subject to another, therefore to live together
But since social relations are always ambiguous...
...since thought divides as much as it unites...
...since words unite or isolate by what they express or omit...
...since an immense gulf separates my subjective awareness...

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...from the objective truth I represent for others...
...since I constantly blame myself, though I feel innocent...
...since every event transforms my daily life...
...since I constantly fail to communicate...
...since each failure makes me aware of solitude...
...since...
...since I cannot escape crushing objectivity or isolating subjectivity...
...since I cannot rise to the state of being, or fall into nothingness...
...I must listen, I must look around more than ever
The world... my kin... my twin

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The world alone...
...today when revolutions are impossible and wars threaten me...
...when capitalism is unsure of its rights and the working class retreats...
...when the lightning progress of science...
...brings the future terribly near...
...when the future is closer than the present...
...when the distant galaxies are at my door...
...my kin, my twin...
Where is the beginning? But what beginning?
God created heaven and earth. But one should be able to put it better

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To say that the limits of language, of my language...
...are those of the world, of my world...
...and that in speaking, I limit the world, I end it
And when mysterious, logical death abolishes these limits...
...there will be no question, no answer, just vagueness
But if things come into focus again...
...this can only be through the rebirth of conscience
Everything follows from this
I don't know where or when...
...just that it happened

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I have tried all day to recapture the feeling
There was a scent of trees
I was the world... the world was me
A landscape is like a face
This is for Jews only... because it's a one-star hotel
I don't want you to watch me undressing
- You'll be naked anyway - That's different
I'm a Parisian
I work in the Métro
There are two million other Parisians down there, too

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You never see them, because the police don't allow photographs
Mind if the mirror's there?
I can't help it if I tend to be passive
Having sexual intercourse...
Why should I be ashamed of being a woman?
If I am, it's of being happy or indifferent
Yes, that's what I'm ashamed of sometimes
He's going to put himself between my legs
I feel the weight of my arm when I move it
Perhaps I should leave Robert

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He doesn't want to get ahead in the world, he's content as he is
It was the same in Martinique
- Why the lipstick? - What's it to you?
- How do you want it? - I don't know
- Italian-style? - What's that?
You stand and I kneel, so you can see me
The idea of being sexually independent of a man is tempting...
...but in practice I'd hate it
Humility isn't really a good thing...
...because it's sad

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I'd say the same about shame...
...as a way of stopping people quarrelling
Because shame determines everyone's actions...
...on the basis of other people's approval or censure
So it's sad, too
Therefore it's bad...
...like self-contempt...
...and all such feelings
- Want it this way? - Certainly not
I was offered...

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...thirty francs a day to work in the Madeleine area
Do you understand?
I'm a secretary
I speak English and Italian
But no job because I'm too old
No, nothing for you, they said at the agency yesterday
What is art?
Form becoming style; but the style is the man...
...therefore art is the humanizing of forms...
I look at the wall, at objects

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Now... Never... There
At the moment I'm looking out
What a tan! Where have you been?
In Russia
- Where? - Silence. In Leningrad
Are the Russians nice?
Happiness. They're like anyone else
- I was just asking - They're pleasant enough
A few sounds
Seen the Duperrets lately?

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I saw them briefly near the Gare St. -Lazare
It's true, though, that people never know each other...
It's broken
Blue exercise books
How goes it?
Not to have to make love
It's better than the factory
I wouldn't like to work in a factory
How are the children?
Words never say what I'm really saying

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They're fine, but not too well behaved
I wait...
I watch...
This one?
My hair
The telephone
It's for you, Marianne
- Isn't Yvonne here? - No, she's sick
Can I leave half an hour early again?
If Paulette agrees

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I'm very careful crossing the road
I think of the accident before it can happen
...putting an end to my life...
Unemployment...
...sickness... old age...
Death... never
I've no plans for the future, all prospects are closed
My name is Paulette Cadjaris
I didn't make the grade as a typist
No, I don't believe in the future

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I wander around, I don't like being shut in
I do a bit of reading when I can
Yes, I like to study people's characters
I like walking and climbing...
...and going cycling, just for fun
Movies? Two or three times a month, but not in summer
I've never been to the theatre, though I'd like to
I prefer reading... biographies...
...studying people's lives, their character...
...their work...

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...books on travel...
...ancient history
A tree
Later, when François and I are married...
What else have I done?
Just ordinary things
There is increasing interaction between images and language
One might say that living in society today...
...is almost like living in a vast comic strip
Yet language in itself cannot accurately define an image

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For instance...
For instance, how do you render events?
How to say or show that at 4.10 p.m. That afternoon...
...Juliette and Marianne came to the garage where Juliette's husband works?
Right way, wrong way...
...how can one say exactly what happened?
Of course, there is Juliette, her husband, the garage
But are these the words and images to use? Are there no others?
Am I talking too loud, looking too close?
For instance, there are leaves...

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...and although Juliette is no Faulkner heroine...
...those leaves are as dramatically valid as the wild palms
There's another girl...
- even that one can't say completely honestly
There's also a cloudy sky, if I turn my head...
...and words on the walls
Why all these signs which make me doubt language...
...by drowning reality rather than detaching it from the imaginary?
In images, anything goes: The best and the worst
Before my eyes, common sense repairs the break in my reasoning

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Objects exist...
...and if we pay them more attention than we do people...
...it is because they exist more than those people
Dead objects live on
Living people are often dead already
I'm looking for reasons to live happily
And if I now push this analysis further...
...I think there is a reason for living simply in memory...
...and in the facility for stopping to enjoy the present...
...that is, to catch a fleeting reason to be alive...

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...and to have kept it a few seconds...
...and after it has been unearthed from the circumstances surrounding it
To bring into the world of man the simplest things...
...to see the human spirit take possession of them...
...to create a new world where man and things exist in harmony...
...that is my aim
As much political as poetic, it explains this passion for expression
Whose passion? Mine: Writer and painter
It is 4.45 p.m.
Should I have talked about Juliette or the leaves...

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...since it's impossible to do both at once?
Let's say that both, on this October evening, trembled slightly
THE GREAT HOPE OF THE 20TH CENTURY
- Been here long? - Three years
- Where are you from? - Algeria
You like it better here?
- Any sisters or brothers? - One of each
- And your parents? - They're back home
What's your father's job?
He's in aviation

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- Your mother? - She doesn't work
This image shows the meeting of three civilizations
The era of leisure, the era of the key-ring...
...and the era of the bum
And if you can't afford LSD, buy colour TV
Didn't you know?
I thought it was 150 francs and all night
150 francs for the whole night? You're crazy
He's not here
I don't know why, but I was thinking about things

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It's a big place, isn't it?
There's even a bathroom
Thought meshes with reality or calls it in question
Calls it in question
Where's this guy, then?
- What's he saying? - We undress here
I'll wear it after. It's from Chez Vog
Have you seen Paco Rabannes' dresses?
They're super, all made of little metal discs
They're terrific; for evenings, of course

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I could speak French
They're all crazy down there
A dead Vietcong costs the U.S. Treasury a million dollars
Johnson could get 20,000 girls like you for that
I existed, that's all I knew
That's all I could tell
Your tee shirt is very America uber alles
Yes, cities are constructions in space
The mobile elements of a city?
I don't know

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The inhabitants...
Yes, the mobile elements are as important as the fixed ones
Even at its most commonplace, a city is a pleasant spectacle
No event has an autonomous life
It's always limited to things around it
Perhaps the observer of this spectacle...
...is simply me?
Each inhabitant has ties with certain parts of the city
And with what?
With the image, usually steeped in associations

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The physical clarity of this image
Paris is a mysterious city...
...asphyxiating... natural
What's going on? He's crazy
He enjoys it better if we don't look
No, not that
Never mind, I'll do it
It's strange that a person...
...in Europe on 17th August, 1966...
...can be thinking of a person in Asia

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Thinking, meaning to say...
...are not activities like writing, running or eating
They're inside you
If someone asks me to go on with this song...
...I could, yes, I could go on
What sort of process is this...
...this knowing one can go on with something?
I don't know
For example, I can think of someone absent...
...imagine him...

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...or find him evoked by a remark...
...even if he is dead
For example, I say:
"I'm hot"...
...or rather, "I'm impatient"
Now I understand the thought process
It's substituting...
...an effort of the imagination for an examination of real objects
To say something, to try to say something...
Perhaps they are manifestations of the nervous and muscular systems

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For example, I say:
"I'm going to meet Robert at the Elysée-Marbeuf"
Now I try to think it without words...
...neither out loud nor under my breath
- Waiting for someone? - Yes, my wife
I'm waiting, too, but he may not come
- A note for her? - No, it's for myself
Too bad, it's raining
Fortunately, it was not so under Comrade Lenin
Buy Rigenerato Rubber

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Rigenerato Rubber offers special possibilities for rubber objects
Léon Pelli, removals, transport, excursions...
...108 rue Joubert Philips, by the cemetery
The fountain flows, doleful as a dog's muzzle
The rose frightens me: It never laughs
Purify thyself, stranger; I shall enter pure, said Demetrius
With her tresses dipped in water...
...the girl moistened his eyelids, his lips, his fingers
In the heart of the beautiful Pyrenees...
...you will find a wide choice of resorts

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24 rue du Quatre Septembre, Paris 2. Phone 742.21.34
"I still do not know the manner in which...
"...the rash acts of madmen will be circumvented. "Nikita Khrushchev
"I'll go to Paris soon", she said modestly...
...as though Miss Calendar could open doors for her
- You've nothing else to say to me? - No, nothing special
How about you?
Want me to tell you what I'm doing?
You just did, you're writing
But it's very special. I pick up messages from the beyond

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I saw a film where someone did that
Tell me again what you said about the rain
I like rain
You didn't say that
No, I didn't
I said rain made me sad
Isn't that rather commonplace?
No, because rain doesn't make everyone sad
Tell me something else you find interesting
People never really talk in films. I'd like to try with you

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You want to talk with me really?
Only because you're a stranger
I like talking to strangers
Well, talk then
- Do you know what it means to talk? - It's saying words
And what is saying words?
Saying words... is talking...
...to say stupid things or interesting things
How could we talk together?
Really talk, committing ourselves totally

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Well, by picking an interesting subject and discussing it
- All right, let's talk about sex - As usual
Are you afraid to?
I think you're afraid
Think what you like, but I'm not. Why should I be?
Why are people always scared of sex?
It doesn't scare me
Well, I'm going to ask you to say something, and I bet you refuse
Go ahead
Promise you'll say it

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It depends whether it's silly and whether I want to or not
- See? You're scared - It's not that at all
All right, I'll tell you
My sexual organ is between my legs. Go on, say it
We're not in school
No, but you said you weren't scared of sex
- I'm not - Say it, then
Why? It's stupid
It's as simple as lighting a cigarette
No, I light a cigarette because I want to smoke

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What's the point in saying something obvious?
You have a sexual organ just as you have eyes. Why not say so?
Because I don't talk about my eyes, shoulders or sex, that's why
You should; you have lovely eyes. A lovely mouth, too
Isn't that man the Nobel Prize winner?
Ivanov? Could be
What will communist ethics be like?
The same as they are now, I expect
Meaning what?
Look out for one another, work for one's country...

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...Love it...
...Love the arts and science
What will the difference be, then?
It will be easier to explain when communism comes
Oh, yes, I understand, it's money
It's a great evil, because you steal without realizing it
Can I ask you a question?
- Should one be honest with oneself? - At your age, definitely
And at yours?
At my age... as often as possible

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No, always
You're right
One must always be sensitive to the intoxication of life
Can I ask you another question?
Is poetry formative, or simply decorative?
Everything that decorates life is formative
You mentioned intoxication: Did you mean beer or vodka?
Neither. Just intoxication
I've never tried either. What is the intoxication of life?
I think that you know what it is

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I often get depressed and I cry. It's terrible
Haven't you time to talk about me?
Actually, it might be better done in writing...
...but that would be even worse than it is now
Please don't look at me, I'm so ashamed. But only you can advise me
- Why me? - I don't know
- Why me? - I don't know
Don't you have friends...
...a tutor, parents?
Yes, I have

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Aren't they good people?
Some of them are
Intelligent people?
Yes, intelligent
Then why me?
Have you read my books?
Not really read... but we study them in school
Don't you think it's strange, then, that it's me you want to talk to?
I thought you had more courage
It's not a question of courage...

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...but of competence
Then we'd better stop
I'll go away
What have you been doing all day, clever?
This morning I worked... at my garage
- Do you own it? - No, I don't
Then why is it "my" garage?
At "the" garage. Right
You're not listening
How do you know it's a garage?

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Are you sure the word isn't "swimming-pool" or "hotel"?
I suppose it could be
Exactly. How do things get particular names?
They're given them
Who by?
You know a lot, but do you know yourself?
Not very well
Gilbert frowned slightly. Martine noticed, and blushed
Crowned by dualism, the Hungarian success was national...
...but the rise of Italy and Germany was international

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Another egg mayonnaise and a chocolate mousse
Involuntarily, my fingers moved. "He'll talk", said a voice
The water stopped, the gag was removed. I could breathe again
In the darkness the two officers hit my stomach...
...to pump out the water I'd swallowed
Thought, however, is not merely the investigation of non-thought
- What for you, Monsieur Pécuchet? - A surprise
I'm out of surprises
Thought as such is bound to the coming of Being
Being, inasmuch as it is the coming, is the end of thought

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Being is, inasmuch as it is the end of thought...
SOCIOLOGY OF THE NOVEL
Hurry up, I haven't all day!
- Why not there? - There's no room
No need to wait on events now, to photograph and kill people
Go back to the ABC of existence
Nor when?
I only remember it happened
Maybe it's not important
It was on the way to the hotel with the chap from the Métro

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- I've thought about it all day
A sense of my ties with the world
Suddenly I felt I was the world...
...and the world was me
I would take pages and pages, whole volumes, to describe that
A landscape is like a face
I wanted to say, I simply see a face with a particular expression
But that doesn't mean it's an extraordinary expression...
...or that you'll try to describe it
Perhaps you want to say it's this or that

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She looks like Chekhov's Natasha
Or she's Nanook's sister in Flaherty's film
But you'd be right to say it can't be described in words
Yet I feel the expression on my face must mean something
Something standing out from the general outline
I mean from the sort of form outlined which...
As if it were possible to say...
...this face has a particular expression... and then...
...and then... in fact, this is what it is
For instance, weariness

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Our apartment in the best part of town was sold, and we were stuck here
It just isn't the same
What are we to do?
We'll start over again
It's nice here, we have lots of fun
No games, though
The ladders over there are dangerous
SOLD HERE
They took away the roundabout and swings
It's nice, if only we had something to do

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Go and find the children. What about the key?
Hello. What are you doing?
My homework
- What's it about? - Friendship. I'll read it
In my new school, the boys and girls are all together
This makes it co-ed
Is friendship between boys and girls possible? Yes and no
Yes, because some girls are very nice
Maryse, Martine, Ghislaine, Roseline
With these girls we can talk

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"Hello kid", I say. "Hello", they reply
Then we talk until we disagree
"Be quiet", he says. "Yes, but you said that"
If I agree, we go on talking
In this case friendship is good because the girls are nice
With Maryse and Roseline we have more serious discussions
"What is your answer to this problem?", Roseline asked
"A over B equals AOB..."
Here again friendship is possible and desirable
No, because the other girls are mean and sneaky

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The ones with glasses we don't talk to, we quarrel with them
Oh, anything is possible
Can I go on, please?
"You're impossible", she says
I kick her, she throws an ink-ball at me, teacher comes in
In this case friendship is not desirable or possible
I'd rather be electrocuted with my feet in water
Both nice and nasty girls are quite clean...
...and most are nice, so I feel better about it
Well, we got there

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- Where? - Home
- So what now? - We go to bed. What's up with you?
- And then? - We wake up
- And then? - Same again
We'll wake up. We'll eat
And then?
I don't know
Die
And then?
Can I read for a bit?

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What does it mean to know something?
Robert, fetch Solange, please
Show my eyes...
I know they're my eyes because I see with them
I know they're not my knees or whatever, because I've been told so
Suppose I hadn't been told?
How would life be?
If Hitler came, I'd shoot him
How can I be sure?
I'd be waiting for him

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As soon as he came in, I'd shoot
No, I don't know where he is
When I don't know, I imagine
How can I imagine, when I don't know where he is?
No, I don't know if he's still alive
Yes, perhaps I'm confusing thought and reality
Yes, I'd be inclined to say that...
...since real objects don't always exist...
...to vouch for the truth...
...the truth of our thoughts

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Our thoughts are not the substance of reality...
...but its shadow
I'm not sure
The children are asleep
To define oneself in a word:
Not yet dead
- average practical intelligence...
...involving wide-ranging interests and the ability to make decisions
Richardson, Buloz and Henry discovered that...
...among the 2,589 persons employed by their clients...

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...the practical I.Q. Score for executives was 84...
...for managers and foremen, 78, and for manual workers, 74
The successful man is self-confident, but not aggressive
Did you underline that?
The successful man is prepared to acknowledge his failings
He is not afraid to say "I don't know"
Only a man who is sure of himself can admit defeat
I don't agree
Read something else if you don't like it
Do you know the difference between true and false love?

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False love leaves me as I am. Time changes me and the person I love
Do you think I've changed? I'm just tired
No, not you. Me
I've changed and I'm still the same. So, what is it?
I don't know
In that case, give me a cigarette
Listening to the commercials on my transistor, and thanks to Esso...
...I drive off without a care on the road to dreams
I forget Hiroshima, Auschwitz, Budapest...
...I forget Vietnam, the housing problem...

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...the famine in India
I forget everything except that I'm back at zero...
...and have to start from there