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1 " We pimp our precious lives to the infernal gnashing babble - Follow me! Friend me! Like me! But don't ever know me. "
― Patrick Marber , Don Juan in Soho: After Molière
2 " Men want a girl who looks like a boy. They want to protect her but she must be a survivor. And she must come...like a train...but with...elegance. "
― Patrick Marber , Closer
3 " A million years ago - some hairy bastard daubed a horse on the wall of his cave, he saw it, he drew it - well done! Flash forward: 'Hello, welcome to my vlog. Today I bought a plum "
4 " Larry: She doesn't want to be happy.Dan: Everybody wants to be happy.Larry: Depressives don't. They want to be unhappy to confirm they're depressed. If they were happy they couldn't be depressed anymore. They'd have to go out into the world and live. Which can be depressing. "
― Patrick Marber
5 " DANWhat do you want?ALICETo be loved.DANThat simple?ALICE It's a big want. "
6 " I know who you are. I love you. I love everything about you that hurts. "
7 " The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn’t true of my life, though I’ve experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play. "
8 " That's the most stupid expression in the world. 'I fell in love'—as if you had no choice. There's a moment, there's always a moment; I can do this, I can give in to this or I can resist it. I don't know when your moment was but I bet there was one. "
9 " I love everything about you that hurts. "
10 " Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do. "
11 " • Dan: I love you. • Alice: Where? • Dan: What? • Alice: Show me. Where is this 'love'? I can't see it, I can't touch it, I can't feel it. I can hear it, I can hear some words but I can't do anything with your easy words. "
12 " Everything is a version of something else. "
13 " Have you ever seen a human heart? It looks like a fist, wrapped in blood! Go fuck yourself! "
14 " I don't love you anymore. Goodbye. "
15 " Alice: I don’t love you anymore. Goodbye.Dan: Since when?Alice: Now. Just now. "
16 " I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over. "
17 " What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world. "
18 " I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely. "
19 " Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye."Dan: Supposing you do still love them?Alice: You don't leave. "
20 " We arrive with our...'baggage' and for a while they're brilliant, they're 'Baggage Handlers.' We say, 'Where's your baggage?' They deny all knowledge of it...'They're in love'...they have none. Then...just as you're relaxing...a Great Big Juggernaut arrives...with their baggage. It Got Held Up. One of the greatest myths men have about women is that we overpack. "
