Dead Man - Departure and Return of the Spirit
William Blake:
Hello.
Nobody:
I prepared your canoe with cedar boughs. It's time for you to leave now, William Blake. Time for you to go back where you came from.
William Blake:
You mean Cleveland?
Nobody:
Back to the place where all the spirits came from, and where all the spirits return. This world will no longer concern you.
William Blake: [shows Nobody a reel of tobacco]
Found some tobacco.
Nobody:
That tobacco is for your voyage... William Blake.
William Blake:
Nobody... I don't smoke.
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Dead Man - Questioning Life and Death
Nobody:
Did you kill the white man who killed you?
William Blake:
I'm not dead. Am I?
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Dead Man - Themes of Life and Mortality in Dialogue
Nobody: [seeing William touching his chest wound]
Leave that alone stupid white man.
William Blake: [as Nobody attends to his wound]
Am I going to die?
Nobody:
The circle of life has no ending.
William Blake:
Why are you helping me?
Nobody:
A bird told me.
William Blake:
A bird told you?
Nobody: [pauses]
A small magical bird with bright blue feathers. I was following him in your forest, hoping to acquire one of his indigo feathers... and then I lost him... and then I found him again. He was perched on your chest tasting your blood. He looked at me. Then he flew directly west in a straight line - his small beak red with your blood.
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Dead Man - Traded Goods and Lost Items
William Blake:
Do you still have my eyeglasses?
Nobody:
No, I traded them. Do you have any tobacco?
William Blake:
No, I traded it.
Nobody:
For what?
William Blake:
I'm not telling.
Nobody:
Liar.
William Blake:
Thief.
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Dead Man - Identity and the Nature of Names
William Blake:
What is your name?
Nobody:
My name is Nobody.
William Blake:
Excuse me?
Nobody:
My name is Exaybachay. He Who Talks Loud, Saying Nothing.
William Blake:
He who talks... I thought you said your name was Nobody.
Nobody:
I preferred to be called Nobody.
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Dead Man - Conflict Over Tobacco and Vision
Nobody:
The vision of Christ that thou dost see... is my vision's greatest enemy. Do you have tobacco?
Trading Post Missionary:
We sure don't.
Nobody:
Aren't those tins of tobacco right there behind you?
Trading Post Missionary:
Sure are, but those cans are empty. There's no tobacco in them. Perhaps I could interest you in some beads...
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Dead Man - Similarity in Nature and Appearance
Nobody:
Things which are alike, in nature, grow to look alike.
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Dead Man - A Call to Action Amidst Despair
Nobody:
Don't let the sun burn a hole in your ass, William Blake. Rise now, and drive your cart and plough over the bones of the dead!
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Dead Man - The Language of Violence and Expression
Nobody:
That weapon will replace your tongue. You will learn to speak through it. And your poetry will now be written with blood.
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Dead Man - Lessons from the Eagle and the Crow
Nobody:
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn from the crow.
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Dead Man - The Duality of Existence
Nobody:
Every night and every morn, some to misery are born. Every morn and every night, some are born to sweet delight. Some are born to sweet delight; some are born to endless night.
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