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Addie Loggins: You meet my Mama in a barroom? Moses Pray: Where would you get a question like that? Addie Loggins: I hear Miss Polly talkin' neighborly and she says one of you is my Pa. Moses Pray: Well, don't the world have a wild imagination.

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Addie Loggins: I want my two hundred dollars. Moses Pray: I don't have your two hundred dollars no more and you know it. Addie Loggins: If you don't give me my two hundred dollars I'm gonna tell a policeman how you got it and he'll make you give it to me because it's mine. Moses Pray: But I don't have it! Addie Loggins: Then get it! Cafe Waitress: [walks over after Moses slams his fist on the table] How we doin', Angel Pie? We gonna have a little dessert when we finish up our hot dog? Addie Loggins: I don't know. Cafe Waitress: What do you say, Daddy? Why don't we give Precious a little dessert if she eats her dog? Moses Pray: Her name ain't Precious.

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Addie Loggins: Frank D. Roosevelt said we're all feelin' a lot better. Moses Pray: He did, did he? Addie Loggins: It made me feel good when he said that. Better than I felt in a long time. Moses Pray: Bet ole Frank sure does wish you was twenty-one. Addie Loggins: You don't like me, do ya? Moses Pray: No, I don't like ya!

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Addie Loggins: [about the Harem Slave show at carnival] How many times you gonna see it? Moses Pray: As many times as I like, that's how many times! Addie Loggins: You've seen it half a dozen already. Moses Pray: And I might see it half a dozen more! Now why don't you go play bingo or somethin'? Addie Loggins: I don't wanna play bingo! Moses Pray: Then why don't you go write another love note to Saint Roosevelt? Addie Loggins: Maybe I will! Moses Pray: And stop standing around here checking on me! You don't have to worry. I ain't about to leave some poor little child stranded in the middle of nowhere. I've got scruples too, ya know. You know what that is... scruples? Addie Loggins: No, I don't know what it is but if you've got 'em, it's a sure bet they belong to somebody else! Moses Pray: [calling after Addie about President Roosevelt] And his name ain't Frank, it's Franklin!

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Moses Pray: Okay, I want you to remember one thing. I decide on the price. Maybe you don't know French but there's something in this world called "finesse." Twelve dollars. I never sold no bible for twelve dollars. That man was a law officer. He could have had me put in jail. Addie Loggins: We got it, didn't we! Moses Pray: I don't care if we got it. Don't you go makin' the decisions. I make the decisions! All you got to do is look like a pretty little girl. You ain't got somethin' like a ribbon in that cigar box, do ya? Addie Loggins: I got my Mom's kimono in my suitcase. Chinamen with umbrellas. Moses Pray: That ain't quite what I had in mind.

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Addie Loggins: [about Trixie] How come she had to leave that job back there? Imogene: Cause the boss-man tried to make her put out for his friends, and she don't believe in puttin' out for free! Addie Loggins: She put out much? Imogene: Just like a gum machine. You drop some in and she'll put some out. Addie Loggins: How much she charge? Imogene: Most she can get. But, she always asks for five dollars. Addie Loggins: Imogene, what do you suppose Miss Trixie'd do if somebody offered her $25 to put out. Imogene: Ooo Wee! You crazy? For that much money, that woman'd drop her pants down in the middle of the road!

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Addie Loggins: Why don't you quit? Imogene: Quit! Now, how am I gonna quit? And what if I do quit, I ain't got no money to get home to Mama. And what if I do get home, they got hard times as it is. My Mama say, "You go work for that white lady, she'll take good care of you." [Rolls her eyes] You wanna know what I think? Addie Loggins: Yeah. Imogene: You know the little white speck on top of chicken doo-doo? Addie Loggins: Yeah. Imogene: Well, that's the kind of white I think Miss Trixie is. She's just like that little white speck on top of old chicken shit.

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Trixie Delight: I just don't understand it, Daddy, but this little baby has got to go winky tinky all the time. Moses Pray: Well, don't you worry none. We'll just plan on stoppin' here for dinner. Addie Loggins: [furious] But we just stopped for her to winky tink at lunch! Moses Pray: That's right and now we're stoppin' for dinner. Come on! Addie Loggins: I ain't hungry!

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Moses Pray: Come on, we're ready. Come on, now. Addie Loggins: I ain't ready. Moses Pray: Well, you don't look real busy with nothing, so you just come on down. Addie Loggins: I ain't coming. Moses Pray: Now you listen here, child. Addie Loggins: No, I won't listen here. Moses Pray: What the heck's up with you, then? Addie Loggins: I wanna sit in front. And how come we ain't working no more? Moses Pray: 'Cause we're on vacation, that's why. And Miss Delight and me are sitting in front because we are two grown-ups, and that's where grown-ups do the sitting. And little children do not tell grown-ups what to do with their lives, you understand that? Addie Loggins: Well, she ain't my grown-up, and I ain't planning no more to sit in the back. Not for no cow. Moses Pray: Will you keep your voice down. And Miss Delight ain't no cow. She's a proper woman. She has a high school diploma, and right now she's got to go to the bathroom, so you just get on down to the car. Addie Loggins: She always

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Imogene: Your Daddy's gonna kill that hotel clerk. Addie Loggins: Mose wouldn't do that!