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Observation Test and Its Surprising Insights
Ed Leland
What I was going to ask you to do is stand up, turn around, and close your eyes and tell me everything you see in the room. It's an observation test. Do you really have a problem with that?
Linda Voss
Pictures of sailboats and polo ponies; fancy books and diplomas; stuffed fish on the wall; calendar set to the wrong date; bookcases that need dusting; carpets that need cleaning; and a couple of guys from Harvard who are surprised that a girl who needs a job won't be treated like a slave.
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A Tough Decision in a Complicated Relationship
Linda Voss
If you don't let me go, I'll quit!
Ed Leland
I'll miss you.
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A Conversation About Smoking and Self-Perception
Ed Leland
When did you start smoking?
[she lights a cigarette]
Linda Voss
I don't know.
Ed Leland
That was a silly thing to do, don't you think?
Linda Voss
I'm a silly girl, Ed. I think you're living proof of that.
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Marguerite's Discriminatory Perspective on Jews
Marguerite Von Eberstein
Except for you, I have no use for Jews.
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Dismissal and Disappointment in Culinary Context
Franze-Otto Dietrich
It's me, ze zoup.
[from car to Linda Voss who is walking alone and has just been fired by Horst Drescher]
Franze-Otto Dietrich
He dismissed you?
Linda Voss
Yes.
Franze-Otto Dietrich
Ze doves were raw.
Linda Voss
I had no time, I arrived at 6:00.
Franze-Otto Dietrich
He ate ze whole thing to pwove it was edible.
[talking to Linda Voss about Horst Drescher and the dinner for raw dove]
Franze-Otto Dietrich
You should have seen him. Pompous little ass. Eating a raw bird.
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A Taste of Nostalgia and Identity
Horst Drescher
Delicious. Makes me feel like a volf.
[chewing raw dove]
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Civilized Conversations Amidst War Tensions
Ed Leland
You can come to work for me while I'm here, I can always use a good secretary.
[seeing Linda for the first time in six months after their passionate affair, and he has come strolling in with a stunning burnette]
Linda Voss
This is all so civilized, Edward. That's what you like isn't, it? Civilized people, polite ladies with pedigrees who look good at the opera, and never make you laugh too hard, and never make you feel too much. I've had a lot of time to think about this and don't tell me it's the war, when I've been waiting for six months to hear whether you're dead or alive and you waltz into a nightclub.
Ed Leland
Linda, I came in last night and I was going to call you.
Linda Voss
Oh, go to hell.
Linda Voss
Careful, Ed. You might have to admit you know me.
Ed Leland
Linda, it is the war.
Linda Voss
You're so noble, Ed.
Ed Leland
Did I promise you something? If I did, I'd like to know.
Army SSG in Canteen
Excuse me, sir. I thought the young lady might like to dance.
Ed Leland
The lady is busy.
Linda Voss
I'd love to dance.
Ed Leland
I'm cutting in.
Linda Voss
Don't let him.
Army SSG in Canteen
Excuse me, sir. But I don't think the young lady wants to dance with you.
Ed Leland
Don't try it, or I'll leave here with your Adam's Apple in my pocket.
Linda Voss
What do you want from me?
Ed Leland
I want you to stop feeling sorry for yourself.
Linda Voss
No, you want me to stop feeling, like you... You didn't love me, didn't you? I could have been wrong.
Ed Leland
You weren't.
Linda Voss
Well then. How do you stop, or want to?
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