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Doc Holliday: Way ahead of yourselves, aren't you, boys? This is just another mining camp. Behan: Have you seen how everyone dresses? Awful tony for a mining camp. No, sir, the die is cast. We are growing. Be as big as San Francisco in a few years and just as sophisticated. Doc Holliday: [smirking] Very cosmopolitan.

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Josephine Marcus: [looking at Wyatt] This is a remarkable scene. I wonder who that tall drink of water is. Mr. Fabian: My darling, you've cast your gaze upon the quintessential frontier type. Note the lean silhouette. Eyes closed by the sun, yet sharp as a hawk. He has the look of both predator and prey. Josephine Marcus: I want one. Mr. Fabian: Happy hunting.

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Doc Holliday: Why, Johnny Tyler! You madcap. Johnny Tyler: [Freezes]...Doc? Doc Holliday: Where do you think you're going with that shotgun? Johnny Tyler: ...I-I didn't know you was back in town!

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Curly Bill: Wyatt Earp, huh? Heard of you. Ike Clanton: Listen now, Kansas Law Dog. Law don't go around here, savvy? Wyatt Earp: I'm retired. Curly Bill: Good. That's real good. Ike Clanton: Yeah, yeah, that's real good, law dog. 'Cause the law just don't go around here. Wyatt Earp: Yeah, I heard you the first time. [draws a card, to Curly Bill] Winner to the king. $500. [Morgan pays Curly Bill out] Curly Bill: Shut up, Ike. Johnny Ringo: [steps up to Doc] And you must be Doc Holliday. Doc Holliday: That's the rumor. Johnny Ringo: You retired too? Doc Holliday: Not me. I'm in my prime. Johnny Ringo: Yeah, you look it. Doc Holliday: And you must be Ringo. Look, darling, Johnny Ringo. The deadliest pistoleer since Wild Bill, they say. What do you think, darling? Should I hate him? Kate: You don't even know him. Doc Holliday: Yes, but there's just something about him. Something around the eyes, I don't know, reminds me of... me. No. I'm sure of it, I hate him. Wyatt Earp: [to Ringo] He's

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Billy Clanton: Is that "Old Dog Tray?" It sounds to me like "Old Dog Tray." You know, Stephen Foster. "Oh, Susannah," "Camptown Races." Stephen stinking Foster! Doc: Ah, yes. Well, this happens to be a nocturne. Billy Clanton: A which? Doc: You know, Frederic fucking Chopin.

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Ike Clanton: What is that now? Twelve hands in a row? Holliday, son of a bitch, nobody's that lucky. Doc Holliday: Why Ike, whatever do you mean? Maybe poker's just not your game Ike. I know! Let's have a spelling contest!

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Billy Clanton: [to Holliday] It's the drunk piano player. You're so drunk, you couldn't hit nothin.' [draws a knife.] In fact, you're probably seeing double. Doc: [draws a second gun] I have two guns; one for each of ya.

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Wyatt Earp: It's not your problem, Doc. You don't have to mix up in this. Doc Holliday: [Glares at Wyatt] That is a hell of a thing for you to say to me!

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Virgil Earp: What do you want, Ringo? Johnny Ringo: I want your blood...and I want your souls. And I want 'em both right now. Wyatt Earp: We don't want any more trouble. Johnny Ringo: Well, you've got trouble! And it starts with you. [points to Wyatt] Wyatt Earp: [opens his coat, showing he's not armed] I'm not gonna fight you, Ringo, there's no money in it. Sober up. C'mon boys. [Earp brothers start to walk away] Johnny Ringo: Wretched slugs. Don't any of you have the guts to play for blood?! Doc Holliday: [steps forward, one gun in a shoulder holster in full view, holding his other behind his back] I'm your huckleberry. That's just my game. Johnny Ringo: Alright, lunger, you go to hell. I'll put you outta your misery! Doc Holliday: Say when! Curly Bill: Johnny, don't! Curly Bill: Don't mind him. He's just drunk, that's all. [chuckles] Johnny Ringo: No! I want them spitting blood! Curly Bill: Easy, son, easy. Now ain't the time! [Johnny staggers away and runs into some coffins at the

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Kate: I don't understand. I'm your woman, you get killed, where's it leave me? Doc Holliday: Without a meal ticket I suppose. Kate: ... You bastard. Doc Holliday: I'm leaving now darling. Kate: You bastard! Doc Holliday: Have you no kind word to say to me before I ride away? Doc Holliday: I calculate not.

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Jack Johnson: Nobody move! Doc Holliday: Nonsense! By all means, move.

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Jack Johnson: Doc, you ought to be in bed. What the hell you doin' this for, anyway? Doc Holliday: Wyatt Earp is my friend. Jack Johnson: Hell, I've got lots of friends. Doc Holliday: I don't.

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Wyatt Earp: What makes a man like Ringo, Doc? What makes him do the things he does? Doc Holliday: A man like Ringo has a great empty hole through the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it. Wyatt Earp: What does he need? Doc Holliday: Revenge. Wyatt Earp: For what? Doc Holliday: Being born.

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Johnny Ringo: Well... I didn't think you had it in you. Doc Holliday: [reveals his face] I'm your huckleberry. [Ringo stops short, looking startled.] Why, Johnny Ringo. You look like somebody just walked over your grave. Johnny Ringo: Fight's not with you, Holliday. Doc Holliday: Oh, I beg to differ, sir. You and I started a game we never got to finish. Play for blood, remember? Johnny Ringo: I was just fooling about. Doc Holliday: [smiles] I wasn't. And this time...[opens his overcoat to reveal a badge] It's legal. Johnny Ringo: [grins] All right, lunger. Let's do it! Doc Holliday: Say when. Doc Holliday: Come on! Come on! Oh, Johnny, come on! You're no daisy, you're no daisy at all! Poor soul, you were just too high strung. Doc Holliday: I'm afraid the strain was more than he could bear. Oh, I wasn't quite as sick as I made out. Doc Holliday: My hypocrisy goes only so far. Wyatt Earp: Alright, let's finish it. Doc Holliday: Indeed, sir. The last charge of Wyatt Earp and his immortals

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Wyatt Earp: How are you? Doc Holliday: I'm dying, how are you? Wyatt Earp: Pretty much the same.

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Doc Holliday: What did you ever want? Wyatt Earp: Just to live a normal life. Doc Holliday: There's no normal life, Wyatt, it's just life. Get on with it. Wyatt Earp: Don't know how. Doc Holliday: Sure you do. Say goodbye to me. Go grab that spirited actress and make her your own. Take that beauty and run, don't look back. Live every second. Live right up to the hilt. Live Wyatt. Live for me. Wyatt, if you were ever my friend, if you ever had even the slightest of feelin' for me, leave now. Leave now... Please. Wyatt Earp: [takes Doc's hand] Thanks for always being there, Doc.