Stranger on the Third Floor - The Nature of Violence and Humanity
Mike: [referring to Meng]
Did you ever want to kill a man?
Martin:
My son, there's murder in every intelligent man's heart.
Mike:
He's no man. He's a worm - the kind you ought to jump on with heavy boots.
Martin:
You'll have to do an awful lot of jumping. The Earth is covered with em.
Mike: [while absentmindedly gesturing with his dinner knife]
It'd be a real pleasure to cut his throat.
Martin:
Say, you're not kidding. Put down that knife!
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Stranger on the Third Floor - Judgment on a Neighbor's Mental State
Martin: [noticing how Meng is eyeing the legs of a pretty young woman]
Who is that citizen?
Mike:
It's my next door neighbor.
Martin:
He looks as though his mind could stand a little laundering.
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Stranger on the Third Floor - Life's Worth in Humor and Seriousness
Mike:
But what if she's right? He didn't do it and they give him the chair?
Martin:
Suppose they do? What difference does it make? There's too many people in the world anyway.
Mike:
What's the use of talking to you? You think everything's a joke.
Martin:
My son, it is. If it weren't, life wouldn't be worth living.
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