A scene from Dodsworth 1936
Fran

Oh, you're hopeless. You haven't the mistiest notion of civilization here.

Sam

Yeah, well, maybe I don't think so much of it, though. Maybe clean hospitals, concrete highways, and no soldiers along the Canadian border come near my idea of civilization. There are 20 million automobiles in America. Now, I've contributed something to every single one of them from my own personal civilization. And if that isn't more than knowing how to order dinner as your friend the madam...

Fran

You don't want to learn. I could teach you. I belong here. They accept me here.

Sam

Yeah? Well, I'm gonna get out of this town and back to doing something, and take you along.

Fran

Well, I'm not going, Sam.

Sam

Oh, yes, you are.

Fran

No, I'm not. I think you and I need a vacation from each other.

Sam

Well, I don't feel that way about it. I think I've been weak with you long enough.

Fran

Besides, I've rented a villa with Renee for the summer at Montreux on Lake Geneva in Switzerland. I've signed the lease.

Sam

Well, I think you might have told me.

Fran

I got my own money.

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