The Passenger, 1975

"The Girl: Who are you?
David Locke: I used to be someone else, but I traded him in. Uh, what about it?
The Girl: Well, I'm in Barcelona. 

I'm talking with someone who is somebody else."

"David Locke: Now I think I'm going to be a waiter in Gibraltar.
The Girl: Too obvious.
David Locke: Maybe a novelist in Cairo.
The Girl: Too romantic.
David Locke: How about a gunrunner?
The Girl: Too unlikely.
David Locke: As a matter of fact, I think I 'am' one.
The Girl: Then it depends on which side you're on.
David Locke: Yes."

 "The Girl: People disappear every day.
David Locke: Every time they leave the room."

"David Locke: We translate every situation, every experience into the same old codes. We just condition ourselves.
Robertson: We are creatures of habits."

 

"David Locke: Excuse me. I was trying to remember something.
The Girl: Is it important?
David Locke: No."

 

"David Locke: I've run out of everything - my wife... the house... an adopted child... a successful job... everything except a few bad habits I could not get rid of."

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"David Locke: What can you see now?
The Girl:  A man scratching his shoulder, a kid throwing stones, and dust. 

It's very dusty here."

 

"David Locke: My name is Robertson. 

I've been waiting for someone who hasn't arrived.
Man: Niños. I've seen so many of them grow up. Other people look at the children and they all imagine a new world. But me, when I watch them, I just see the same old tragedy begin all over again. "

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The Passenger, 1975

Carnal Knowledge, 1971

 

"Sandy: Looks aren't everything, you know.
Jonathan: Believe me, looks are everything."
 

"Bobbie: I need a life.
Jonathan: Get a job!
Bobbie: I don't want a job. I want you.
 Jonathan: I'm taken, by me. Get out of the house, do something useful, Goddammit."
 

"Jonathan: You want a job? I got a job for you. Fix up this pigsty! You get a pretty goddammed good salary for testing out this bed all day! 

You want an extra fifty dollars a week, try vacuuming! 

You want an extra hundred, make this goddammed bed! Try opening some goddammed windows! That's why you can't stand up in here, the goddammed place smells like a coffin!"

"Jonathan:Why don't you leave me?... 
For God's sake, I'd almost marry you if you'd leave me. "

"Jonathan: What are you crying for? It wasn't a Lassie story."

"Jonathan: This place is a mess! There's not any food in the house, half the time you look like you fell out of bed! You spend more time in bed than any other human being past the age of 6 months than I ever heard of!"

 

"Bobbie: The reason I sleep all day is because I can't stand my life!
Jonathan: What life?
Bobbie: Sleeping all day!"

"Jonathan: Affairs can't dissolve in a good way. There's always got to be poison. I don't see why, I really don't see why!"

"Jonathan: Women today are better-hung than the men."

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Carnal Knowledge, 1971