Quotes

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Edward: Having a kid changes everything. I mean, there's the diapers and the burping and the midnight feedings... Will: Did you do any of that? Edward: No, but I hear it's terrible. Then you spend years trying to corrupt and mislead this child, fill its head with nonsense and still it turns out perfectly fine.

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Norther Winslow: I've been working on this poem for 12 years. Edward: Really. Norther Winslow: There's a lot of expectation. I don't want to disappoint my fans...the grass so green, skies so blue, spectre is really great! Edward: It's only three lines long. Norther Winslow: This is why you should never show a work in progress.

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Beamen: You won't find a better place! Edward: I don't expect to. Jenny: Promise me you'll come back. Edward: I promise. Someday. When I'm really supposed to.

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Man in crowd: Mayor, he ate an entire cornfield! Young girl in crowd: He ate my dog!

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Mayor: Son that creature could crush you without trying. Edward: Oh trust me— he'll have to try.

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Edward: Will never told you?... Ah, probably just as well. He would have told it wrong anyway. All the facts and none of the flavor. Josephine: Oh... so this is a tall tale? Edward: Well, it's not a short one.

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Karl: I don't want to eat anybody. I just get so hungry. I'm just too big. Edward: Did you ever think maybe you're not too big— but, maybe this town's just too small?

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Amos: Tell me, Karl, have you ever heard the term “involuntary servitude?” Karl: No. Amos: Unconscionable contract? Karl: Uh... Nope. Amos: Great! Here you go.

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Edward: I just saw the woman I'm going to marry, I know it. But I lost her. Amos: Oh, tough break. Well, most men have to get married before they lose their wives. Edward: I'm going to spend the rest of my life looking for her. That or die alone. Amos: Damn, Kid! Let me guess. Real pretty? Reddish-blondish hair? Blue dress? Edward: Yeah! Amos: I know her uncle. Friends of the family. Edward: Who is she? Where does she live? Amos: Forget it kid, don't waste your time. She's out of your league. Edward: What do you mean? You don't even know me. Amos: Sure I do. You were hot s*** back in Hickville, but here in the real world, you got squat. You don't have a plan. You don't have a job. You don't have anything except the clothes on your back... you were a big fish in a small pond, but this here is the ocean, and you're drowning. Take my advice and go back to Puddleville. You'll be happy there.

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Edward: You don't know me, but my name is Edward Bloom and I love you. I've spent the last three years working to find out who you are. I've been shot and stabbed and trampled a few times— I broke my ribs twice— but it's all been worth it to see you here, now, and to finally get to talk to you. Because I'm destined to marry you. I knew it the first moment I saw you at the circus. And I know it now more than ever. Sandra: I'm sorry. Edward: You don't have to apologize to me. I'm the luckiest person you'll find today. Sandra: No, I'm sorry. I'm engaged to be married. But you're wrong. I do know you. At least by reputation. Edward Bloom from Ashton. See, I'm actually engaged to a boy from Ashton. Don Price. He was a few years older than you. Edward: Well... congratulations. I'm sorry to have bothered you...

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Josephine: You never told me how your parents met. Will: They met at Auburn. Josephine: What about the details? How they fell in love. The Circus. The War. You never told me any of that. Will: That's because most of it never happened. Josephine: But it's romantic.

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Will: You have to understand. When I was growing up, he was gone more than he was here. And I started thinking— maybe he has a second life somewhere else. With another family, another house— he leaves us, he goes to them. Or maybe there is no second family. Maybe he never wanted a family. But whatever it is, maybe he likes that second life better. And the reason he tells all those stories is because he can't stand this boring place. Josephine: But it's not true. Will: What is "true"? He's never told me a single true thing.

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Edward: What do you want, Will? Who do you want me to be? Will: Yourself. Good, bad, everything. Just show me who you are for once. Edward: I have been nothing but myself since the day I was born. And if you can't see that, it's your failing, not mine.

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Sandra: It was during the war. Your father went missing. They thought he was dead. Will: That really happened? Sandra: Not everything your father says is a complete fabrication.

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Jenny: One day, Edward Bloom left, and never returned to the town he'd saved. As for the girl, the common belief was that she'd become a witch, and crazy at that. She became something of a legend herself. And the story ended where it began. Will: Well, logically, you couldn't be the witch, because she was old when he was young. Jenny: Well, it's logical if you think like your father. See, to him, there's only two women: your mother and everyone else... And one day I realized I was in love with a man who could never love me back. I was living in a fairy tale... I'm not sure I should have told you any of this... I wanted to be as important to him as you were, and I was never going to be. I was make-believe and... his other life, you, you were real.

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Will: As we get-as we get close to the river, we see that everybody is already there. Will: And I mean everyone...it's-it's unbelievable. Edward: The story...of my life. Will: And the strange thing is,there's not a sad face to be found,everyone is just so glad to see you.And send you off right. Will: You become what you always were...a very big fish...and that's how it happens. Edward: Exactly.