| Movie |
On the Beach |
| Year |
1959 |
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Dwight Towers:
Well... how'd you recognize me?
Moira Davidson:
I love Americans. They're so naive.
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Moira Davidson:
I wouldn't really mind... if you could forget entirely who I am... I don't like myself very much anyway.
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Moira Davidson:
There isn't time. No time to love... nothing to remember... nothing worth remembering.
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Peter:
You remember when we first met? It was on the beach. I thought you were everything I'd always wanted.
Mary:
I thought you were so underfed.
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Mary:
It's all over now, isn't it?
Peter:
Yes, it's all over.
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Julian Osborne:
The war started when people accepted the idiotic principle that peace could be maintained by arranging to defend themselves with weapons they couldn't possibly use without committing suicide.
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Julian Osborne:
We're all doomed, you know. The whole, silly, drunken, pathetic lot of us. Doomed by the air we're about to breathe.
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[first lines]
Dwight Towers:
Prepare to surface.
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[last lines]
Mary:
God... God, forgive us. Peter, I think I'll have that cup of tea now.
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Julian Osborne:
Who would ever have believed that human beings would be stupid enough to blow themselves off the face of the Earth?
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Morgan:
They pushed us too far! They didn't think we'd fight, no matter what they did!
Julian Osborne:
And they were wrong. We fought. We expunged them. And we didn't do such a bad job on ourselves.
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Julian Osborne:
There was a choice. It was build the bombs, and use them - or risk the United States, the Soviet Union, and the rest of us, would find some way... to go on living.
Morgan:
[scoffs] That's wishful thinking if ever I heard it.
Julian Osborne:
[softly] I'm not against wishful thinking. Not now.
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Julian Osborne:
I shouldn't drink, you know. I inevitably say something brilliant.
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