"IF YOU BELIEVE IN LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, YOU NEVER STOP LOOKING"
Larry: I know who you are. I love you. I love everything about you that hurts.
Anna: We do everything that people who have sex do!
Larry: Do you enjoy sucking him off?
Anna: Yes!
Larry: You like his ....?
Anna: I love it!
Larry: You like him ....... in your face?
Anna: Yes!
Larry: What does it taste like?
Anna: It tastes like you but sweeter!
Larry: That's the spirit. Thank you. Thank you for your honesty. Now fuck off and die, you fucked up slag.
Anna: Why is the sex so important?
Larry: Because I'm a fucking caveman!
Dan: It's not safe out there.
Alice: Oh, and it's safe in here?
Dan: I fell in love with her, Alice.
Alice: Oh, as if you had no choice? There's a moment, there's always a moment, "I can do this, I can give into this, or I can resist it", and I don't know when your moment was, but I bet you there was one.
Dan: You love her like a dog loves its owner.
Larry: And the owner loves the dog for so doing.
Dan: You'll hurt her. You'll never forgive her.
Larry: Of course I'll forgive her. I *have* forgiven her. Without forgiveness we're savages. You're drowning.
Anna: Why are you dressed?
Larry: Because I think you may be about to leave me and I didn't want to be wearing a dressing gown.
Larry: I used to come here a million years ago, when it was a punk club. The stage was... Everything is a version of something else. Twenty years ago. How old were you?
Alice: Four.
Larry: Christ. When I was in flares, you were in nappies.
Alice: My nappies were flared.
Alice: No one will ever love you as much as I do. Why isn't love enough?
Larry: You're seeing him now? Since when?
Anna: Since my opening last year.
[
pause]
Anna: I'm disgusting.
Larry: You're phenomenal. You're so clever.
Larry: And on some small level, I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.
Larry: But we're happy... Aren't we?
Alice: I don't love you anymore. Goodbye.
Alice: [
in the emergency room] Are we in for a long wait?
Dan: [
indicating an old woman] She was 21 when she came in.
Larry: You forget you're dealing with a clinical observer of the human carnival.
Anna: Am I, now?
Larry: Oh, yes.
Anna: You seem more like the cat that got the cream, you can stop licking yourself.
Larry: As dermatological conferences go, it was a riot.
Alice: How can one man be so endlessly disappointing? Dan: That's my charm.
Larry: A good fight is never clean.
Larry: Of course she enjoyed it. As you know, she loves a guilty f%ck.
Larry: Yes, I saw her naked. No, I did not fuck her.
Larry: I want you to tell me your name. Please.
[
throws down a note]
Alice: Thank you. My name is Jane.
Larry: Your real name.
[
throws down another note]
Alice: Thank you. My real name is Jane.
Larry: Careful.
[
throws down another note]
Alice: Thank you. Still Jane.
Larry: I've about got another 500 quid here. Why don't I just give you all this money, and you tell me what your real name is, Alice.
[
throws down the rest of his money]
Alice: I promise.
[
picks up some of the money]
Alice: Thank you. My real name... is plain... Jane Jones.
Alice: What's your work?
Dan: I'm sort of... journalist.
Alice: What sort?
Dan: I write obituaries.
Anna: I don't kiss strange men.
Dan: Neither do I.
Anna: I'm sorry you're... Larry: Don't say it! Don't you f*cking say you're too good for me. I am, but don't say it.
Dan: I want Anna back.
Larry: She's made her choice.
Dan: I owe you an apology. I fell in love with her. My intention was not to make you suffer.
Larry: So where's the apology? Ya cunt.
Dan: I apologize. If you love her you'll let her go so she can be happy.
Larry: She doesn't want to be happy.
Dan: Everybody wants to be happy.
Larry: Depressives don't. They want to be unhappy to confirm they're depressed. If they were happy they couldn't be depressed anymore. They'd have to go out into the world and live. Which can be depressing.
Dan: And you left him, just like that? Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave. Dan: You've never left someone you still love? Alice: Nope.
Larry: Alice, tell me something true. Alice: Lying's the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off - but it's better if you do.
Larry: [
speaking to Anna] You'd be my wh*re. And in return I will pay you with your liberty.
Dan: What were you doing in New York?
Alice: You know...
Dan: Well no, I don't. What, were you studying?
Alice: Stripping.
Alice: [
Dan looks shocked] Look at your little eyes...
Dan: I can't see my little eyes
Larry: Dan, I lied to you. I did f*ck Alice. Sorry for telling you. I'm just not big enough to forgive you, Buster.
Dan: When I get back, please tell me the truth.
Alice: Why?
Dan: Because I'm addicted to it. Because without it, we're animals. Trust me.
Alice: I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over.
Dan: At six, we stand round the computer and look at the next day's page, make final changes, add a few euphemisms for our own amusement.
Alice: Such as?
Dan: "He was a convivial fellow" - meaning he was an alcoholic. "He valued his privacy" - gay. "He enjoyed his privacy" - raging queen.
Alice: What would my euphemism be?
Dan: She was... disarming.
Alice: That's not a euphemism.
Dan: Yes, it is.
Larry: [on a photography exhibit] What do you think? Alice: It's a lie. It's a bunch of sad strangers photographed beautifully, and... all the glittering assholes who appreciate art say it's beautiful 'cause that's what they wanna see. But the people in the photos are sad, and alone... But the pictures make the world seem beautiful, so... the exhibition is reassuring which makes it a lie, and everyone loves a big fat lie. Larry: I'm the big fat liar's boyfriend. Alice: Bastard!
Alice: So you're Anna's boyfriend.
Larry: A princess *can* kiss a toad.
Alice: Frog.
Larry: Toad.
Alice: Frog.
Larry: Toad. Frog. Lobster. They're all the same.
Larry: So Anna tell me your bloke wrote a book. Any good?
Alice: Of course.
Larry: It's about you isn't it?
Alice: Some of me.
Larry: Oh? What did he leave out?
Alice: The truth.
Dan: So, he's a dermatologist. Can you get more boring than that?
Anna: Obituarist?
Dan: Failed novelist, please.
Larry: There's a girl out there who calls herself Venus, what's her real name?
Alice: Pluto.
Dan: You think love is simple. You think the heart is like a diagram. Larry: Have you ever seen a human heart? It looks like a fist, wrapped in blood! Go fuck yourself! You writer! You liar!
Larry: He's a stringy fucker.
Larry: So... you're a stripper.
Alice: Yeah... and?
Larry: [
Larry leans in to kiss her, then he stops and begins to walk away] You take care now.
Anna: Don't stop loving me. I can see it draining out of you. It's me, remember? It was a stupid thing to do and it meant nothing. If you love me enough, you'll forgive me.
Alice: Where is this love? I can't see it, I can't touch it. I can't feel it. I can hear it. I can hear some words, but I can't do anything with your easy words.
Larry: You don't know the first thing about love, because you don't understand compromise.
Dan: Deception is brutal, I'm not pretending otherwise.
Alice: How? How does it work? How do you do this to someone?
[
Dan is silent]
Alice: Not good enough!
Larry: You still pissing about on the Net?
Dan: Not recently.
Larry: I wanted to kill you.
Dan: I thought you wanted to fuck me.
Larry: Don't get lippy. I liked your book, by the way.
Dan: Thanks.
[
Sniffs]
Dan: You stand alone.
Larry: Why didn't you just tell me the second I walked through the door?
Anna: I was scared.
Larry: You're a coward, you spoiled bitch.
Dan: You've ruined my life. Anna: You'll get over it.
[
as Alice strips for Larry]
Larry: Are you flirting with me?
Alice: Maybe.
Larry: Are you allowed to flirt with me?
Alice: Sure.
Larry: Really?
Alice: No, I'm not. I'm breaking all the rules.
Larry: You're mocking me!
Alice: Yes, I'm allowed to flirt.
Alice: Why isn't love enough?
Larry: Are you leaving me? Because of this? Why?
Anna: Dan.
Larry: Cupid? He's our joke.
Larry: Did you do it here?
Anna: No.
Larry: Why not?
Anna: Do you wish we did?
Larry: Just tell me the truth.
Anna: Yes, we did it here.
Larry: Where?
Anna: [
points] There.
Larry: On this? We had our first f*ck on this. Did you think of me?
Larry: Are you dressed because you thought I might hit you? What do you think I am?
Anna: I've been hit before.
Larry: Not by me!
Dan: Do you have any children?
Anna: No.
Dan: Would you like some?
Anna: Yes, but not today.
Alice: Is it because she's successful? Dan: No. It's because... she doesn't need me.
Dan: You came to, you focused on me, you said, Hello, stranger. Alice: What a FLOOZY!
Larry: You think because you don't love us, or desire us, or even like us, you think you've won. Alice: It's not a war.
Anna: I don't want trouble.
Dan: I'm not trouble.
Anna: You're taken.
Dan: I've got to see you.
Anna: Tough.
Dan: You... KISSED me!
Anna: What are you - TWELVE?
Dan: What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.
Alice: Hello, stranger.
Larry: What does your ...... taste like?
Alice: Heaven.
[
each commenting on the other's lover]
Larry: He's very pretty.
Alice: She's... very tall.
Larry: You shouldn't smoke.
Alice: Fuck off.
Larry: I'm a doctor. I'm supposed to say things like that.
Dan: I'll always love you. I hate hurting you.
Alice: Then why are you?
Alice: You still fancy me? Dan: ...Of course. Alice: You're lying. I've been you.
Dan: Why did you f*ck him?
Alice: I wanted to.
Dan: Why?
Alice: I desired him.
Dan: Why?
Alice: You weren't there!
Dan: Why him?
Alice: He asked me nicely.
Dan: You're a liar.
Alice: So?
Dan: Who are you?
Alice: I'm no one!
[
Alice spits in Dan's face. Dan raises his hand to slap her]
Alice: Go on, hit me. It's what you want. come on, hit me, fucker!
[
Dan slaps Alice]
Dan: I'm your stranger. Jump!
Anna: Love bores you. Dan: No, it disappoints me.
Alice: Do you want one?
Larry: No. Yes. No. Fuck it, yes!
Larry: [
takes the pack] No. I've given up.
Larry: [
about Alice] She has the moronic of beauty of youth, but she's sly.
Alice: [
to Daniel] You're a piece of shit.
Larry: You're mocking me.
Alice: Yes I'm allowed to flirt.
Larry: To prise my money from me.
Alice: To prise your money from you I may do or say as I please.
Larry: Except touch?
Alice: We're not allowed to touch.
Larry: What would happen if I touched you now?
Alice: I would call security.
Larry: And what would they do?
Alice: They would ask you to leave and ask you not to come back.
Larry: And if I refused to leave?
Alice: They would remove you. Those are security cameras in the ceiling.
Larry: I think it's best I don't attempt to touch you. I'd like to touch you. Later.
Alice: Can I still see you?
[
Dan stands silent]
Alice: Dan can I still see you? Answer me.
Dan: I can't see you. If I see you I'll never leave you.
Alice: What will you do if I find someone else?
Dan: Be jealous.
Dan: Look me in the eyes. Tell me you're not in love with me.
Anna: I'm not in love with you.
Dan: You just lied.
Alice: You all done?
Dan: Mmm.
Alice: How's the photographer?
Dan: Good. Professional. Rigorous. Thievy. One of your lot.
Alice: What, female?
Dan: Americano.
[
They start up the stairs]
Dan: Come on.
[
They walk into a room]
Dan: Anna, Alice.
Anna: Hi.
Alice: Sorry to interrupt.
Anna: No, we've just finished. Would you like some tea?
Alice: No, thanks. I've been serving it all day. Can I use your loo?
Anna: Sure. Just through there.
[
Alice walks off]
Anna: She is beautiful.
Dan: I've got to see you.
Anna: No.
Dan: What is this, patriotism?
I wont be your revenge f*ck!!!!
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