Dodsworth 1936 quotes, page 2

21 quotes · 3 characters
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Fran Ruth Chatterton · 12 quotes
Edith Mary Astor · 6 quotes

Most scenes together: Sam Dodsworth & Fran (9), Sam Dodsworth & Edith (5)

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Sam

She's dropped the divorce. She's going home on the Rex day after tomorrow from Naples. I've got to go with her.

I won't let you.

Sam

What else can I do?

I won't let you go back to her.

Sam

I know this is a jolt. It's a jolt to me too.

I won't see you killed by her selfishness.

Sam

You don't understand. It'll be tough on her with all the talk there'll be.

I love you, and she doesn't. You're miserable with her.

Sam

I know.

A moment ago, you had the whole world in your hands. I won't let her take it away from you.

Sam

She's not taking it away.

You were a young man a minute ago. I know everything's starting again. You shriveled the same way, every letter you got from her.

Sam

I can't think.

You're wrong to go back...

Sam

Please, be fair. She's in a hole. She needs me.

She does not need you, and you might think of me.

Sam

I am thinking of you.
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One word from her, and you trot back.

Sam

You've got to be patient with me.

What is this hold she has over you?

Sam

I've got to take care of her. A man's habits get pretty strong in 20 years. I'll go into town and make the reservations. It's giving you up that hurts.

Sam

You want to divorce me then?

Why should I want to divorce you? You're my husband.

Sam

You couldn't very well divorce me if I weren't.

Sam

You've lived abroad. What's it like?

That depends on what one's after, as you would say.

Sam

When a man has no more job and his wife wants a fling there are worse things than travel. It wouldn't do for me though. No, not long, it wouldn't. For a steady thing, give me America. For Americans, that is.

Drifting isn't nearly so pleasant as it looks.

Sam

Why don't you give it up?

One drifts for lack of a reason to do anything else.

Sam

Well, what do you want?

What do you suppose any lone woman wants?

I'm out to make a new life for myself. I'm out to learn how to enjoy my leisure, now I've retired. I've been doing things people expected of me always. I want to feel free. I want to sit under a linden tree with nothing more important to worry about than the temperature of the beer, if there is anything more important.

I'm out to see the world I haven't seen and get a perspective on the USA. I might get to know myself at the same time. I might even get to know my wife.