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Lucy: [to Mitch] Just what do you do for the Hadley Oil Company? Kyle: We're troubleshooters. Wherever they want trouble, they send for us. Mitch: I, uh, have a sheepskin that says I'm a geologist. Kyle: I was kicked out of the same school. They found rocks in my head.

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Lucy: Nothing like this has ever happened to me before. It's an adventure. It's exciting. Mitch: Are you looking for laughs? Or are you soul-searching? Lucy: The latter, I guess. I think I'm beginning to know Kyle - and to like him. Mitch: [looking hurt] Well, in that case, I'm glad.

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Lucy: I took a sudden dislike to the suite...Oh, it was beautiful at first glance. Then I thought how ugly it would be - in the morning. Kyle: Guilty as charged. Lucy: I was tempted. Kyle: Was it easy to overcome? Lucy: Yes, you made it easy. Kyle: How, by throwing my money at you? Lucy: No. No, it wasn't that. Kyle: What, then? Lucy: It was the ride. 'Up in the blue' as you call it. Kyle: Talked too much, didn't I? Lucy: No. It was good talk. Only something happened to me, something as unexpected as the things you told me. I tried to tell myself it was, I don't know, sympathy, compassion. But it was more. Kyle: Let's... let's get out of here. Cigarette? We'll put you on the next plane to New York. Lucy: Thank you. Kyle: I'm...sorrier than I've ever been in my whole sorry life. I hope you believe me. Lucy: Is it important that I do? Kyle: Very, because I... I want to start all over again... with you. Lucy: How? Kyle: Suppose-- Just suppose I came to New York again. Not to play, but to

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Jasper: It's about time you got hitched, isn't it? Mitch: No, I-I have trouble enough finding oil. Jasper: I sure wish you felt different about Marylee. Mitch: We grew up together, like brother and sister. I just can't see it any other way. Jasper: Yeah. It's a shame, though, in a way. It's a real shame.

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Marylee: Then you grew up and left me, you and Kyle, the rover boys. I guess that's why I hate him so, for taking you away from me. I love you, Mitch. I'm desperate for you. So desperate, I run to the likes of Roy Carter. Mitch: All right, blame me. Marylee: I'm not talking about blame. About love. Do you love me, Mitch? Mitch: Like a brother. Marylee: I don't want you as a brother. Mitch: Can't be any other way, Marylee. Don't, please don't waste your life waiting for me. Marylee: I'll wait, and I'll have you - marriage or no marriage.

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Kyle: A toast to — to beauty — and the truth, which is anything but beautiful... This is an occasion. We must proceed with, with quiet dignity. Mitch: What are we celebrating? Kyle: The end of a drought, a year-long drought. Mitch: We drank a toast to truth. Kyle: So? Mitch: So you ought to let us in on what you're really celebrating — or mourning. Kyle: So you'd like to know my secret. The secret is — not to pour the vermouth, just to pretend you're pouring it.

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Biff: [about Marylee] That's how she operates... I never heard of anybody ever picking her up, that's all. It's always the other way around. Jasper: How do you know? Biff: Why don't you just walk up and down Main Street and ask somebody, huh? Jasper: I'm asking you! Biff: I didn't take her to the motel. She took me. Your daughter's a tramp, mister, if that ain't plain enough for ya.

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Lucy: Do you love me? Kyle: Love you? I don't even love myself. Lucy: Kyle, what is it? Is it something I've said or something I've done or should have done? Kyle: I can't tell you. I'm afraid. It's like I was deep in a mountain pass, snowcaps hanging over my head. If I make a sound, snow might all come tumbling down... bury me... alive.

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Lucy: Bored? Mitch: Disgusted. Mostly with myself. Lucy: But I - I need you here. Mitch: That's the only reason I stayed - to help you. Lucy: Not Kyle? Mitch: I made a resolution last week. It goes like this - To Hell With The Hadleys. Lucy: I'm a Hadley. Mitch: Not to me you're not. Lucy: I respect my marriage. Mitch: Haven't I?

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Marylee: That was no lady. That was your wife. Kyle: Where are they going? Marylee: I don't know. Where would you take your best friend's wife? Kyle: You're a real sweet kid. Marylee: Now be nice to me, brother. One morning we'll wake up and we'll be all alone together. Kyle: Go on, sister. Tell me another pretty story. Marylee: Once upon a time, there was a poor little rich boy. Kyle: Kyle Hadley by name. Marylee: Who pickled his tiny brain with gin and bourbon. Kyle: Not so. Scotch. Marylee: Till he got so stinking blind he couldn't see what was going on right under his big red nose. Kyle: But his charming, righteous little sister did. Marylee: Yes, she saw the end of a marriage and the beginning of a love affair. Kyle: You're a filthy liar. Marylee: I'm filthy — period. But you don't have to take my word for anything. Just try keeping your head clear and your eyes open. Kyle: Why should you care? You've never cared about me. Marylee: Or your wife. Kyle: Why are you putting your two

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Lucy: [after telling him she is pregnant] Kyle, it's true. Kyle: You shouldn't have done that to me. You shouldn't have. Lucy: What are you talking about? Kyle: Mitch. You and the Mitch. Lucy: Don't say that Kyle. Don't even think it. Kyle: What did you think? You think I was just a drunken idiot? That I'd believe you? That I'd let you use my name? Take my money? You can rot in hell! You, Mitch, and your little... Lucy: Kyle, I've had nothing to do with Mitch. Kyle: [striking out with rage] You dirty tramp!

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Kyle: [waving a pistol around] You lousy white trash. You no-account, two-faced dog. I'm gonna watch you cringe. Then I'm gonna put a bullet in your belly...my best friend. My lifelong pal. What a laugh! You crawlin' snake. You crept in here, sponged off us Hadleys, stole everything I ever wanted, everything I ever had...You made me small in my father's eyes. You made my sister spit at me. Then, you stole my wife. Mitch: Kyle, we've never lied to each other. And I'm tellin' you now, I never touched Lucy, only because she's your wife. Get this straight. The child would have been yours. Not mine. Yours. Kyle: What are we doing here, Mitch?... Let's go down to the river, where we belong. I'll be down at the river, waiting, waiting.

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Marylee: I could tell the police that I saw you kill my dear brother. Mitch: You could. Marylee: On the other hand, a wife wouldn't and couldn't testify against her own husband. Mitch: You know, for a beautiful girl, you can look real ugly sometimes. Ask yourself this: Would I ever be enough for you? Marylee: I could talk you right into the state penitentiary. Mitch: You're sick, Marylee. Your sickness won't be cured by marrying me. Before it's too late, you'd better face up to yourself. Look how far we've come from the river.