The English Patient quotes
81 total quotesKatharine Clifton
Kirpal Singh (Kip)
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This a different world is what I tell myself; a different life. And here I'm a different wife. [to Almásy]
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The neck of K can never [be something] not in my mind. and K's clothes always at ease on her. Does he notice? What is the significance of Betrayal? Does K bother with a moral Labyrinth - K's debate - does she debate? [reading from notes she found in Almásy's book]
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Am I 'K' in your book? I think I must be. [to Almásy]
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You speak so many bloody languages, and you never want to talk.[to Almásy]
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I can't do this anymore. [to Almásy]
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Do you think you are the only one who feels anything? Is that what you think? [to Almásy]
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Why did you hate me? Don't you know you drove everybody mad? [to Almásy]
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In Italy, there's always chickens, but no eggs. In Africa there's eggs, but never chickens. Who separated them?
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Ask him. Ask your saint who he is. Ask him who he's killed. [to Hana]
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There was a result to what you did! [to Almásy]
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Look. See? Move that — and no more Bach. [to Hana after playing the piano]
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It's still there, the cannon, outside the museum. It was made of metal cups and bowls taken from every household in the city as tax, then melted down. Then later they fired the cannon at my people - comma - The natives - full stop. [reading from w:Herodotus to Almásy]
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What I really object to, Uncle, is your finishing all my condensed milk —and the message everywhere in your book - however slowly I read it - that the best destiny for India is to be ruled by the British. [to Almásy]
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This is what I do. I do this every day. [to Hana]
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Why are you people so threatened by a woman? [to Almásy, et.al.]