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- Tell me something.
- You don't look as though I could.
- You've been a lot of places, haven't you?
- One too many.
- Which did you like best?
- This one right here.
- I bet you say that to all the places.
-You were never married before, were you?
-Not that I can remember.
-A guy can't even get shot by a dame... ...without
the whole town
starting to buzz like a...
-Like you? Smoke a cigarette, Joe.
-You just sit and stay inside yourself. You wait for
me to talk. I like that.
-I never found out much listening to myself.
-You know, you're a curious man.
-You're gonna make every guy you meet a little bit
curious.
- Don't you like it in here?
- I'm just not ready to settle down.
-Shall I take you somewhere else?
-You're gonna find it very easy to take me anywhere.
-I could have run away last night.
- I'd find you.
- Yes, I believe you would.
I never saw her in the daytime. We seemed to live by
night. What was left of the day went away like a pack
of cigarettes you smoked. I didn't know where she
lived. I never followed her. All I ever had to go on
was a place and time to see her again. I don't know
what we were waiting for. Maybe we thought the world
would end.
- I didn't know you were so little.
- I'm taller than Napoleon.
-You're prettier too.
- Did you miss me?
- No more than I would my eyes.
-Jeff, I'm glad you're not afraid of him.
-I've been afraid of half the things I ever did.
- And this time?
- I'm only afraid you might not go.
-Don't be. I'll be there tomorrow.
Let's go down to the bar. You can cool off while we
try to impress each other.
- Look, I got along before this job. I ate good, and
I grew as big as you did. If there's something you
don't like, say so.
Her name is Meta Carson. You'll find her charming.
She may even find you charming. I understand that
women have.
-Jeff, I had to come back. What else could I do?
-You can never help anything, can you? You're like a
leaf that the wind blows from one gutter to another.
You can't help anything you do, even murder.
- You can't say it was that.
- I can say one thing. I buried him.
-Buddy, you look like you're in trouble.
- Why?
- Because you don't act like it.
-I think I'm in a frame.
-Don't sound like you.
-I don't know. All I can see is the frame. I'm
going in there now
to look at the picture.
- Apple martini?
- Thanks.
-Meta talked about you like you're the ninth wonder of
the world.
- She skipped one.
- Meta must be the eighth.
-All women are wonders because they reduce all men to
the obvious.
-And so do martinis.
- I don't want to die.
-Neither do I, baby. But if I have to, I'm gonna die
last.