The Quiet American Page #12
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- Year:
- 1958
- 120 min
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Phuong, everything we've ever wanted
is right here in my hands.
Oh, perhaps some of these people
speak English.
They'll tell you. Where's Vigot?
He'll tell you. You'll take the word
of an inspector perhaps...
What we have always wanted
is in your hands? What is that?
To be together again as we were,
to have again what we had.
What were we and what did we have?
We can't talk about such things here.
You don't know these people...
They are my friends.
Things could be different now.
It has already been different.
There was a man who
gave to me something.
- What? Canasta lessons, frozen food...
- Of himself.
I've known a man who loved me. He's dead.
Look, you can't just dismiss me like this.
Have you ever loved me?
Have you ever even lied to me
that you loved me?
Just asking you for a dance.
I have had someone want
to marry me because he loved me.
I have just told you...
That's because you are forcibly
deprived of the competition.
What are the present prices? A meal,
a bottle of flat champagne under flat fee.
Keep out of this.
What will become of you here
in a place like this,
with people like these?
Since when does the future concern you?
than your next pipe.
Now, it concerns me now.
Now is too late for you.
Fowler, it's none of my business, of course.
- Quite right.
- And I don't hold with guilt by association.
You too are innocent, Wilkins.
I absolve you too.
Not from the human race you can't.
Oh, let me put it to you
as a professional item.
"The celebration of Chinese new year
was briefly interrupted last night
"in a Shaolin restaurant, by a shabbily
dressed, middle-aged, Caucasian
"who appeared suddenly on the dance floor,
unshaved, unwashed and unwanted
"and made a public nuisance of himself
by haranguing a young Vietnamese girl."
I wish someone existed
to whom I could say I was sorry.
I drive past the cathedral.
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