Vision Quest - Taking Time Off for a Match
Louden:
I was at the hotel. They told me you took the night off. I thought you were sick or something.
Elmo: [chuckles]
Of course I took the night off, dummy. Isn't this the night you wrestle Shute?
Louden:
You took the night off for that?
Elmo:
Yeah. Shaved and got a haircut and everything.
Louden:
You never took a night off to see me wrestle before. They're gonna dock you for that.
Elmo:
Hey, kid - money ain't everything.
Louden:
Yeah, it's not that big a deal, Elmo. I mean, it's six lousy minutes on the mat, if that.
Elmo: [[Pelé]
You ever hear of ]?
Louden:
Yeah, he's a, a soccer player.
Elmo: [pause; pause]
A very famous soccer player. I was in the room here one day... watchin the Mexican channel on TV. I don't know nothin about Pelé. I'm watchin what this guy can do with a ball and his feet. Next thing I know, he jumps in the air and flips into a somersault and uh, he kicks the ball in - upside down and backwards... I mean the goddamn goalie never knew what the fuck hit him. Pelé gets excited and he rips off his jersey and starts running around the stadium waving it around over his head. Everybody's screaming in Spanish. I'm here, sitting alone in my room, and I start crying. Yeah, that's right, I start crying. Because another human being, a species which I happen to belong to, could kick a ball, and lift himself, and the rest of us sad-assed human beings, up to a better place to be, if only for a minute... Let me tell ya, kid - it was pretty goddamned glorious. It ain't the six minutes... it's what happens in that six minutes.
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Vision Quest - Unexpected Discoveries in a Conversation
Elmo: [looks at Louden's book]
What the fuck is this?
Louden:
What? You don't recognize it?
Elmo:
Wait a minute! This is cooze!
Louden:
Yeah, I'm thinking very seriously of becoming a gynecologist
Elmo:
A cooze doctor in outer space? Man, you're flippin out!
Louden:
I want to be able to look inside women, find the power that they have over me.
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Vision Quest - A Question About Female Anatomy
Louden:
Hey, Elmo.
Elmo:
Yeah?
Louden:
What do you know about the clitoris?
Elmo:
Well, I don't know what it looks like exactly, but I kind of know where it's at... sort of.
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Barfly - The Limits of Short-Term Relationships
Henry:
Some guys really know how to get the women.
Jim:
Now, you don't know how?
Henry:
Hey, I can get one for ten minutes. That's my limit.
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Barfly - The Burden of Expectations in Life
Henry: [sighs]
This is a world where everybody's gotta do something. Y'know, somebody laid down this rule that everybody's gotta do something, they gotta be something. You know, a dentist, a glider pilot, a narc, a janitor, a preacher, all that. Sometimes I just get tired of thinking of all the things that I don't wanna do. All the things that I don't wanna be. Places I don't wanna go, like India, like getting my teeth cleaned. Save the whale, all that, I don't understand that.
Jim:
You're not supposed to think about it. I think the whole trick is, not to think about it.
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