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Love and Clarity on a Moonlit Deck
Charles
What I'm trying to say is — only I'm not a poet, I'm an ophiologist — I've always loved you. I mean, I've never loved anyone but you. I know that sounds dull as a drugstore novel, and what I see inside I'll never be able to cast into words, but that's what I mean. I wish we were married and on our honeymoon now.
Jean
So do I. But it isn't as simple as all that, Hopsie. I'm terribly in love, and you seem to be too, so one of us has to think and try and keep things clear. And maybe I can do that better than you can. They say a moonlit deck is a woman's business office.
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Dependence in a Unique Comparison
Jean Harrington
I need him like the axe needs the turkey.
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Misunderstandings About Occupations and Interests
Jean
What were you doing up the Amazon?
Charles
Looking for snakes. I'm an ophiologist.
Jean
I thought you were in the beer business.
Charles
]? Ale!
[[Beer]
Jean
What's the difference?
Charles
Between beer and ale?
Jean
Yes.
Charles
My father'd burst a blood vessel if he heard you say that. There's a big difference. Ale's sort of fermented on the top or something, and beer's fermented on the bottom, or maybe it's the other way around. There's no similarity at all. You see, the trouble with being descended from a ], no matter how long ago he brewered, or whatever you call it, you're supposed to know all about something you don't give a hoot about.
[[brewer]
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Ideal Partners and Their Perceptions
Jean
You have a right to have an ideal. Oh, I guess we all have one.
Charles
What does yours look like?
Jean
He's a little short guy with lots of money.
Charles
Why short?
Jean
What does it matter if he's rich? It's so he'll look up to me. So I'll be his ideal.
Charles
That's a funny kind of reason.
Jean
Well, look who's reasoning. And when he takes me out to dinner, he'll never add up the check and he won't smoke greasy cigars or use grease on his hair. And, oh yes, he, he won't do card tricks.
Charles
Oh.
Jean
Oh, it's not that I mind your doing card tricks, Hopsie. It's just that you naturally wouldn't want your ideal to do card tricks.
Charles
I shouldn't think that kind of ideal was so difficult to find.
Jean
Oh he isn't. That's why he's my ideal. What's the sense of having one if you can't ever find him? Mine is a practical ideal you can find two or three of in every barber shop, getting the works.
Charles
Why don't you marry one of them?
Jean
Why should I marry anybody that looked like that? When I marry, it's gonna be somebody I've never seen before. I mean, I won't know what he looks like, or where he'll come from, or what he'll be. I want him to sort of... take me by surprise.
Charles
Like a burglar.
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Eve's Wisdom About Apples
Taglines
Eve Sure Knows Her Apples!
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Bewitched and Bewildered by Love
Taglines
Barbara Stanwyck has Henry Fonda Bewitched and Bewildered
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Misunderstanding in a Horse Race
Gerald
I can't understand how that horse ran fifth!
Jean
There were only five horses in the race.
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A Discussion on Morality and Manipulation
Jean
I don't see why I have to do all the dirty work. There must be plenty of rich old dames waiting for you to push them around.
Colonel
You find them, I'll push them.
Jean
Boy, would I like to see you give some old harpie the three-in-one!
Colonel
Don't be vulgar, Jean. Let us be crooked, but never common.
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The Nature of Adventure in Love
Charles
Are you an adventuress?
Jean
Of course I am. All women are. They have to be. If you waited for a man to propose to you from natural causes, you'd die of old maidenhood. That's why I let you try my slippers on. And then I put my cheek against yours. And then I made you put your arms around me. And then I, I fell in love with you, which wasn't in the cards.
Jean
Rotten likeness, isn't it? I never cared for that picture.
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Love and deception in life's game
Taglines
When you deal a fast shuffle... Love is in the cards.
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