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Magnolia
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Young Pharmacy Kid: Strong, strong stuff here. What exactly you have wrong, you need all this stuff? Linda Partridge: Motherfucker. Young Pharmacy Kid: What are you talking about? Linda Partridge: Who the fuck are you? Who the fuck do you think you are? I come in here. You don't know me. You don't know who I am, what my life is. You have the balls, the indecency to ask me a question about my life? Old Pharmacist: Please, lady, why don't you calm down? Linda Partridge: Fuck you, too. Don't call me "lady". I come in here, I give these things to you. You check, you make your phone calls, look suspicious, ask questions. I'm sick. I have sickness all around me and you fucking ask me about my life? "What's wrong?" Have you seen death in your bed? In your house? Where's your fucking decency? And then I'm asked fucking questions. What's... wrong? You suck my dick. That's what's wrong. And you, you fucking call me "lady"? Shame on you. Shame on you. Shame on both of you.
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Phil Parma: When was the last time you talked to your son? Earl Partridge: ...I don't know. Ten, maybe... five... [moans]... that's another thing that goes... Phil Parma: Your memory? Earl Partridge: Time lines, you know? I remember things, but not... right there, you know? Phil Parma: Yeah. Earl Partridge: "Yeah". The fuck do you know? Phil Parma: I've seen it before. Earl Partridge: Yeah, other assholes like me. Phil Parma: Oh, there's no asshole like you. Earl Partridge: Cocksucker. Phil Parma: How come every other word you use is either "cocksucker", "shitballs" or "fuck"? Earl Partridge: Do me a personal favor. Phil Parma: Go fuck myself? Earl Partridge: Yeah, you got it.
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Gwenovier: Come on, Frank. What are you doing? Frank T.J. Mackey: What am I doing? I'm quietly judging you.
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Rose Gator: Why doesn't Claudia... talk to you, Jimmy? Jimmy Gator: Why? Because we've... We both don't know. What do you mean? Rose Gator: No, I think you know. Jimmy Gator: Maybe... I don't. Rose Gator: Say it, Jimmy. Jimmy Gator: I think she thinks... that I may have... molested her. She thinks terrible things that somehow got into her head... that I may have done. She said that to me last time, when it was... ten years ago, she walked out the door. "You touched me wrong. I know that." Some crazy thought in her head. Rose Gator: Did you ever touch her? Jimmy Gator: I don't know. Rose Gator: [covers her mouth in disgust] ... Jimmy!... Jimmy Gator: I don't know. I really don't. Rose Gator: But you can't say! Jimmy Gator: I don't know what I've done. Rose Gator: [angry] Yes, you do. You do! But you won't say! Jimmy Gator: I don't know. What? Please? Please. Rose Gator: You deserve to die alone for what you've done! Jimmy Gator: I don't know what I've done! Rose Gator: [beginning to cry
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Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: You look like you have money in your pocket. Thurston Howell: Maybe I'm just happy to see my friend Brad there. Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: Just throw some money around. Money, money, money. Thurston Howell: This sounds threatening. Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: Do you have love in your heart? Thurston Howell: I have love all over. I even have love for you, friend. Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: Is it real love? The kind of love that makes you feel... that intangible joy... pit of your stomach... like a bucket of acid and nerves running around... making you hurt and happy and all over... You're head over heels? Thurston Howell: You lost me with the last couple of cocktail words spoken my boy... but I believe it's that sort of love. Sounds nice to me. Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: I have love. Thurston Howell: A very chatty kind, indeed you do. Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: No, I mean I'm telling you - I have love. Thurston Howell: Yes, and I'm listening avidly, fella. Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: My na
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Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: I used to be smart, but now I'm just stupid. Thurston Howell: Brad, dear, who was it that said..."A man of genius has seldom been ruined but by himself"? Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: [quietly; to himself] ... Samuel Johnson... Thurston Howell: It was the lovely Samuel Johnson! Who also spoke of a fellow "who was not only dull... but a cause of dullness in others." Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: "The cause of dullness in others." Thurston Howell: Picky picky! Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: Let me tell you this; Samuel Johnson never had his life shit on... and taken from him, and his money stolen! Who took his life and his money? His parents? His mommy, and daddy? Make him live this life like this... A man of genius who gets shit on as a child!... and that scars! That hurts! Have you ever been hit by lightning? It hurts. It doesn't happen to everyone. It's an electrical charge. It finds its way across the universe... and it lands in your body, and your head! And as for ruined, but by hi
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Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: I'm sick... I'm sick here now. I confuse melancholy with depression sometimes. You see? Thurston Howell: Why don't you run along now, friend? Your dessert is getting cold. Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: I'm sick. Thurston Howell: Stay that way. Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: I'm sick, and I'm in love. Thurston Howell: You seem the sort of person who confuses the two. Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: That's right! That's the first time you've been right. I confuse the two, and I don't care! [to Brad] I love you. I love you, and I'm sick. I'll talk to you - I'll talk to you tomorrow. I'm getting corrective oral surgery tomorrow... for my teeth. I love you, Brad. Brad the bartender. You want to love me back? I'll be good to you. I'll be goddamn good for you. I won't be mad if you don't know who said what. I won't punish you if you get the answer wrong. I can teach you, and tell you... Thurston Howell: Brad, you have a special secret crush over there, I think. Don't treat him too lovely. He m
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Linda Partridge: [to her lawyer] I have to tell you something, I have something to tell you. I want to change his will. Can I change his will? I need to....No, no, no, you see, uhm, I never loved him. I never loved him. Earl. When I met him, when I started, I met him, I fucked him, and I married him because I wanted his money. Do you understand? I'm telling you this. I've never told anyone, I didn't love him, but now, you know, I know I'm in that will. I mean, we're all there together. We made that fucking thing and all the money I'll get. And I don't want it, because I love him so much now. I've fallen in love with him now for real as he's dying. And, uhm, I look at him, and he's about to go, Alan. He's moments. I took care of him through this, Alan. What now, then? I don't want him to die. I didn't love him when we met, and I did so many bad things to him that he doesn't know. Things that I want to confess to him, but now I do. I love him....This isn't any fucking medication talking!