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There's lots of things I'd die for, Emily; my home, my family, my country. But that's love, not principle.

— Paddy Chayefsky The Americanization of Emily (1964)

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You see, dogs like us, we ain't such dogs as we think we are.

Marty (1955)

All my brothers and brothers-in-laws tell me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.

Marty (1955)

I was in that ultimate moment of terror that is the beginning of life. It is nothing. Simple, hideous nothing. The final truth of all things is that there is no final Truth. Truth is what's transitory. It's human life that is real.

Altered States (1980)

Now what in hell am I going to tell this boy Schaefer's parents? That a substitute nurse assassinated him because she couldn't tell the doctors from the patients on the floor?

The Hospital (1971)

You've done the morally right thing. God save us all from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

The Americanization of Emily (1964)

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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