"You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.












How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it?
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"I took her dress over to the closet and hung it up. It was funny. It made me feel sort of sad when I hung it up. I thought of her going in a store and...
"I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it?
"These intellectual guys don't like to have an intellectual conversation with you unless they're running the whole thing.
"I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way old Phoebe kept going around and around. I was damn near bawling, I felt so damn happy, if you want to k...
"But what I mean is, lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most.
"You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there.
"That's depressing, when somebody says "please" to you.