A Letter to Three Wives - Unspoken Love and Fear of Rejection
Deborah Bishop:
Have you any idea how much Lora Mae is in love with you?
Porter Hollingsway: [scornfully]
No! How much?
Deborah Bishop:
So much she's afraid to tell you, afraid you'd laugh at her.
Porter Hollingsway:
Me laugh? She couldn't say it with a straight face. Lora Mae in love with me? It's all she can do to wait it out.
Deborah Bishop:
Wait it out?
Porter Hollingsway:
Yeah, like an annuity till it matures. Like a slot machine till it pays off. That's what she's waiting for. A chance to call it off, to collect. "The end of the line. Fares, please." Don't tell me about love and Lora Mae.
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A Letter to Three Wives - The Influence of Addie Ross on Conversations
Deborah Bishop:
Why is it that sooner or later no matter what we talk about... we wind up talking about Addie Ross?
Addie Ross: [off voice]
Maybe it's because if you girls didn't talk about me you wouldn't talk at all.
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State Fair - Disillusionment with the Fair Experience
Margy Frake: [leaving the fair]
I never want to see another fair.
Wayne Frake:
You can say that again!
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State Fair - Unconditional Love in State Fair
Margy Frake:
Pat!
Pat Gilbert:
Yes?
Margy Frake:
I was only talking. I couldn't marry anybody but you. Ever!
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State Fair - Desire for Change at the Fair
Melissa Frake:
I don't know what's gotten into you lately. All you do is sit around and mope.
Margy Frake:
I don't sit around and mope.
Melissa Frake:
Well, stop moping now, and finish your packing.
Margy Frake:
Always saying she doesn't know what's got into me. I'll be glad to get to the fair. Hear something different. See something different for a change. What has got into me anyway?
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State Fair - A Game of Chance and Choices
Wayne Frake: [throws embroidery hoop]
Thank you, mister. And now I think I'll have a try at the fancy brass clock. Yes, that one. There you are.
Margy Frake:
Wayne?
Wayne Frake:
That's a nice string of pearls. I think I'll have a go at them. Oh, I know they're fakes. but...
Margy Frake:
Wayne! What are you doing?
Wayne Frake:
How long have you been there?
Margy Frake:
Oh, just a little while.
Wayne Frake:
Then why didn't you say something, instead of just standing there?
Margy Frake:
Who were you talking to? And does Mother know you have her embroidery hoops out here?
Wayne Frake:
Look, just leave me alone, will you, and stop prying in other people's affairs?
Margy Frake:
Speaking of affairs, Eleanor's on the phone.
Wayne Frake:
Eleanor? Well, Christmas, why didn't you tell me?
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State Fair - Modern Farming vs. Traditional Values
Margy Frake:
Got a house on it?
Harry Ware:
Yeah, but it's too old. We'd have to build a new one.
Margy Frake:
Oh, I like old houses.
Harry Ware:
Oh, it wouldn't fit in with our kind of farm. You know, I plan to do everything my old man won't let me do on his place. Scientific irrigation. Electric milking. Separate hen roosts. No horses. All tractor power. You see what I mean? Everything modern.
Margy Frake:
Ohh... but the house you live in...
Harry Ware:
It's got to be the same. No old clapboard shingle business. There is a new kind of plastic, pre-fabricated job. I want you to see it at the catalog home.
Margy Frake:
Is it pretty?
Harry Ware:
Sure, but what's more important it's termite proof. Wait til you see it. They tell you how to furnish it too. No rugs or carpets, they're just dust collectors.
Margy Frake:
What's on the floor?
Harry Ware:
Linoleum - through the whole house. Wait until you see the pictures. It's sleek and smooth, easy to keep clean. Well, it's like every room in the house was a bathroom.
Margy Frake:
Sounds real cozy...
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State Fair - A Playful Exchange on Spelling and Size
Harry Ware:
Biggest boar in the world, I bet.
Margy Frake:
All depends on how you spell it.
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State Fair - Indifference Toward the State Fair
Margy Frake:
Pickles and pigs, pigs and pickles, who cares about that silly old state fair any how?
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