Only Angels Have Wings

Geoff: [after Joe crashes] In about a week, you'll either collect or lose your shirt. Dutchy: Oh, I'm not thinking about that. I just can't go on killing nice kids like that, not if I lose a dozen shirts! Geoff: You think you're the only one that feels that way? Dutchy: Then why do you send them up for in that kind of weather? Geoff: Because I'm running an airline and I'm not running it any different than anybody I ever flew for...Joe died flying, didn't he? That was his job. He just wasn't good enough. That's why he got it. Dutchy: I ain't built like you are, Geoff. I shouldn't be in such a business. We can't go on like that...Oh, Geoff! You're a hard man, much too hard. Geoff: Cut it out...Cut it out!..What's the use of feeling bad about something that couldn't be helped?...I told you, Joe just wasn't good enough. If he hadn't got it tonight, he was bound to get it sooner or later. Dutchy: Then you had no business to let him fly. Geoff: What, ground that kid? Say, he'd sooner be wher

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Bonnie: How can you do that? Geoff: What? Bonnie: Eat that steak. Geoff: What's the matter with it? Bonnie: It was his. Geoff: Look, what do you want me to do? Have it stuffed? Bonnie: Haven't you any feelings? Don't you realize he's dead? Geoff: Who's dead?...Who's Joe?... Bonnie: What's the matter with you? He was sitting here with us talking and laughing just a few minutes ago and...

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Bonnie: All my life, I've hated funerals. The fuss and bother never brings anybody back. It just spoils remembering them as they really are. And when I see people actually facing it that way, I have to act like a sap. This flying business is new to me. Sparks: You have to have some crazy way of looking at it to go on. Bonnie: Does this sort of thing happen very often? Sparks: Well, that depends on weather and luck.

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Bonnie: What was she like, anyway? Geoff: Who? Bonnie: That girl that made you act the way you do. Geoff: A whole lot like you. Just as nice, almost as smart. Bonnie: Chorus girl? Geoff: Only by temperament. Bonnie: Well, at least you're true to the type...Still carrying the torch for her, aren't you?

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Geoff: Got a match? Bonnie: Say, don't you ever have any? Geoff: No - don't believe in laying in a supply of anything. [she hands him a match] Thanks. Bonnie: Matches, marbles, money or women, huh? Geoff: That's right. Bonnie: No looking ahead; no tomorrows; just today. Geoff: That's right.

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Geoff: Did you ever know a woman that didn't want to make plans? Map out everything? Get it all set? Well, I don't blame 'em, I guess. It's the only way they can operate, run a home and have kids. Bonnie: I suppose you think that's a lot easier, less dangerous than flying... Geoff: I told you, I wouldn't ask any woman. Bonnie: What if she were willing? Geoff: That's what they all say. Women think they can take it, but they can't. The minute you get up in the air, they start calling the airport. When you get down, you find them waiting for you so scared, they hate your insides. Bonnie: What if she were the type that didn't scare so easily? Geoff: There's no such animal. Bonnie: Now how do you know? Geoff: Well, the girl I was telling you about came as close to it as anybody I ever met...Told me if I didn't quit flying, it was all off. Bonnie: You wouldn't, would you? Geoff: I'm still flying.

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