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Quotes
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Woman : The illusion of effortlessness requires a great effort indeed.
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Woman : A woman never has a man's intense focus as much as she does before sex.
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Woman : There are no happy endings in our future.
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Woman : But sometimes, people who really love each other, well, they have an uncanny knack for making each other miserable.
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Man : I know how old you are, you know.
Woman : I know.
Man : Then why do you always hesitate when you say your age?
Woman : I don't. Because it's getting to be a surprisingly large number. And I don't like how it sounds. When I say it, it sounds like a lie.
Man : I'm the same age as you.
Woman : Oh, please, I shouldn't even have to tell you that it's different for men.
Man : You call more attention to it when you don't say it bluntly.
Woman : Mm, good advice. I'll remember that.
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Man : Do you dance?
Woman : Um, you know what, I find much less occasion for it these days. Um, I used to dance quite often, before I, well, turned twenty-five, but, um, you know it was a club or party or something. But now, now that I'm, well, older than twenty-five, I just find less occasion for it. I just, I guess the dancing phase of my life is over. I'm afraid my skills have atrophied.
Man : Yeah, maybe I should have been a little bit more clear. Um, I meant, would you dance with me?
Woman : Yeah yeah, I knew what you meant, I was just stalling.
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Woman : Tell me, how old is umm... Sarah the Dancer.
Man : Oh, she's a... she's a college graduate.
Woman : Her age?
Man : She's a recent college graduate.
Woman : Yeah, like 21.
Man : 22.
[Woman walks away. Man follows]
Man : But she's 23 on August the 12th!
Woman : 23 on August the 12th... Well, that's a beautiful age.
Man : Why would you wanna know?
Woman : You know why I wanted to know.
Man : Maybe I do. Say it anyway.
Woman : I wanted to know because I wanted to know. I wanted know if you were flirting with me.
Man : What does Sarah's age have to do with it?
Woman : I am the same age as you, I think, and a man, my age, who prefers 23 on August the 12th might not flirt with someone who is... lets just say 15 years past 23 on August the 12th.
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Man : You're 38 and you look it.
Woman : Fuck you.
Man : Right. And next year you're 39, and then 40. And after 40 you may as well die.
Woman : Thanks.
Man : If the cardiologist is, decides that you are too old and decrepit and ugly to be at all lovable, I am available to tolerate you in your golden years.
Woman : Thank you.
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Man : I thought married women aren't supposed to be Bridesmaids.
Woman : Who says?
Man : Bridesmaids are brides in training, they're like matrimonial interns.
Woman : Ah, it's just a small custom.
Man : Bridesmaids are supposed to be virgins.
Woman : Well, I don't see any virgins out there, did you?
Man : I didn't check.
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Woman : I'm sorry. Come here. It was just something... it was just different. I didn't expect it. You used to be so thin. I mean you were insubstantial, really.
Man : God, the complements keep coming.
Woman : Yeah, but now... Now, you know what? Look at it this way. There's a grandness to you.Like, you know, the rings in a tree trunk asserting the passage of the time: Like "I have earned the right to fill up more space in the one universe."
Man : That's bullshit.
Woman : I tried.
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Man : What was your ex-husband like?
Woman : You know perfectly well what he was like.
Man : Mmhmm, refresh my memory.
Woman : No.
Man : Honestly I can't remember - the memory starts to go around forty, you know.
Woman : [sigh] He was red. He was kind of yellow - and black, and pink, and orange, and blue.
Man : What the fuck does that...
Woman : Magenta, purple, maybe a bit of maroon...
Man : Hey! What does that mean?
Woman : I don't know! It's what I see when I close my eyes.
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Woman : Don't worry about him, he's just trying to get laid.
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Woman : [on phone] I'm having, um, you know french fries, french onion soup and um, french toast I think and a pickle. Hm? Yeah, it's all very french except for the pickle.