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1 " Weston: Look at my outlook. You don't envy it, right?Wesley: No.Weston: That's because it's full of poison. Infected. And you recognize poison, right? You recognize it when you see it?Wesley: Yes.Weston: Yes, you do. I can see that you do. My poison scares you.Wesley: Doesn't scare me.Weston: No?Wesley: No.Weston: Good. You're growing up. I never saw my old man's poison until I was much older than you. Much older. And then you know how I recognized it?Wesley: How?Weston: Because I saw myself infected with it. That's how. I saw me carrying it around. His poison in my body. "
― Sam Shepard , Curse of the Starving Class
2 " You can't believe people when they look you in the eyes. You gotta' look behind them. See what they're standing in front of. What they're hiding. Everyone's hiding, Wes. Everybody. Nobody look like what they are. "
3 " [ELLA] Oh! You know what Wes?[WESLEY] What?[ELLA] That story your father used to tell about that eagle. You remember the whole thing?[WESLEY] Yeah.[ELLA] I remember he keeps coming back and swooping down on the shed roof and then flying off again. What else?[WESLEY] I don't know.[ELLA] You remember. What happens next?[WESLEY] A cat comes. [ELLA] That's right. A big tomcat comes. He jumps up on top of that roof to sniff around in all the entails or whatever it was.[WESLEY] And that eagle comes down and picks up that cat in his talons and carries him screaming off into the sky. [ELLA] And they fight. They fight like crazy in the middle of the sky. The cat's tearing his chest out, and the eagle's trying to drop him, but the cat won't let go because he knows if he falls he'll die.[WESLEY] And the eagle's being torn apart in midair. The eagle's trying to free himself from the cat, and the cat won't let go.[ELLA] And they come crashing down to earth. Both of them come crashing down. Like one whole thing. "
