19 quotes
Changing Agreements in Marriage
Mark Wallace
We agreed before we were married we weren't gonna have any children.
Joanna Wallace
And before we were married we didn't.
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Conversation About Virginity and Experience
Mark Wallace
Are you a virgin?
Mark Wallace
Thought you were. Can always tell.
Joanna Wallace
Congratulations.
Mark Wallace
I was two years at the University of Chicago.
Joanna Wallace
Studying virgin detection?
Mark Wallace
Only at night school.
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Perceptions of American Women in Relationships
Mark Wallace
I always thought American women would be different. I thought in America they'd broken the inhibitions barrier and it was all one long sex feast.
Joanna Wallace
No?
Mark Wallace
But no. But no. The nicely brought-up American girl plays cool and modern. but what she wants - is what her grandmother wanted: Your head stuffed and mounted on the living room wall.
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Silence Between Married Couples
Mark Wallace
What kind of people just sit like that without a word to say to each other?
Joanna Wallace
Married people?
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Success Redefined: A Complex Perspective
Joanna Wallace
At least you're not a bad-tempered, disorganized, conceited failure anymore. You're a bad-tempered, disorganized, conceited success.
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Communication in Relationships and Dining Experiences
Joanna Wallace
What sort of people sit in a restaurant and don't even try to talk to each other?
Mark Wallace
Married people.
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Conflict in Expectations and Desire
Mark Wallace
Why is it whenever you give a woman everything she wants, you get so bloody minded.
Joanna Wallace
You don't give me everything I want, you give me everything you want to give me.
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Memory and Beauty in Relationships
Joanna Wallace
You just want me to become a beautiful memory, the sooner the better!
[upset]
Mark Wallace
Who said anything about beautiful?
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A Brief Reunion Between Two Characters
Mark Wallace
Hello.
[Joanna has returned from an affair]
Joanna Wallace
Hello.
Mark Wallace
Well?
Joanna Wallace
I'm back.
[softly, on the verge of tears]
Mark Wallace
Enjoy yourself?
Joanna Wallace
Yes, thank you. But I missed you.
[nods]
Joanna Wallace
I did.
Mark Wallace
Why?
Joanna Wallace
Because he's so serious.
Mark Wallace
I thought you liked people who were serious.
Joanna Wallace
But he's so serious.
Mark Wallace
Well, I'd better make some funny faces...
Joanna Wallace
You don't need to make funny faces.
[softly]
Joanna Wallace
Mark, I'm back!
Mark Wallace
You humiliate me. You humiliate me... and then you come back.
Joanna Wallace
That's right.
[nods tearfully]
Mark Wallace
Thank God!
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Conflicting Desires in Relationships
Joanna Wallace
What do people have rows about, dear?
Mark Wallace
Money, sex. Sex, money. He wants, she doesn't want.
Joanna Wallace
She wants, he doesn't want.
Mark Wallace
He thinks that the counter is all in the wrong place.
Joanna Wallace
Counter and display cases. It's very funny.
Mark Wallace
Yeah, that's marriage for you.
Joanna Wallace
That's marriage for them.
Mark Wallace
That's marriage. Full stop.
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Communication Breakdown in Relationships
Mark Wallace
Just wish that you'd stop sniping.
Joanna Wallace
I haven't said a word!
Mark Wallace
Just because you use a silencer doesn't mean you're not a sniper.
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The Humorous Side of Marriage Dynamics
Mark Wallace
Do you know what marriage is?
Joanna Wallace
Hmm, you tell me, and see if we're thinking of the same thing.
Mark Wallace
Marriage is when the woman tells the man to take off his pajamas... and it's because, she wants to send them to the laundry.
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Exploring Control and Independence in Relationships
Mark Wallace
Come on, baby.
[to Joanna]
Howard Manchester
Well that, if I may say so, is a very revealing usage. Calling her baby, at this point, shows you're prepared to do her thinking and her deciding for her. Now I warn you solemnly, Marcus. You're denying Joanna the right to be her own paradoxical self.
Mark Wallace
Howard, you're the largest pocket of untapped natural gas known to man.
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Skepticism Towards Commitment in Relationships
Mark Wallace
It's not that I have anything against sex. It's contracts I don't go for. Promise of long service and good conduct.
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Reflections on Marriage and Happiness
Joanna Wallace
They don't look very happy.
[referring to a pair of newlyweds seated in the back of a Rolls Royce]
Mark Wallace
Why should they? They just got married.
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Labels and Limitations in Relationships
Mark Wallace
The trouble with women is they try to label you - put you in a pigeonhole. What they don't realize is - the only thing that fits in a pigeonhole is a pigeon.
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Regrets of a Lost Connection
Joanna Wallace
You haven't been happy since the day we met, have you? If only you were 10 years younger and you knew what you know now.
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Conflict Between Joanna and Mark Wallace
Mark Wallace
Bitch.
Joanna Wallace
Bastard.
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Disdain for Dependable Women
Mark Wallace
If there's one thing I really despise, it's an indispensable woman.
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