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Who wrote it?
- I didn’t get the money, and I didn’t get the woman. – Raymond Chandler’s screen adaptation of James M. Cain’s Double Indemnity.
- I’m a stranger here myself. – I always attributed this to the director Nicholas Ray but I recently learned it originated in a Bertolt Brecht song.
- I can’t help it if I’m lucky. – “Idiot Wind”, Bob Dylan
- I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. – Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams’ Streetcar Named Desire.
- Is there anything you have forgotten to tell me? – Inspector Hound, upon finding himself standing atop a corpse during questioning of suspects in Tom Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound.
- To be lonely is a habit, like smoking or taking drugs. – “Acid Tongue”, Jenny Lewis
- You can lead a horse to water but only very rarely can you drown him and get away with it. I wrote this one, in C.R.I.M.E. Science – Book 1. My life seems to bring me many reasons to reflect on it.
(This post fulfills this Daily Prompt)
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I feel more than a little ashamed I didn’t remember the last one. Clearly I need to read it again.
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That was admittedly an esoteric closer to that list of quotes.
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