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Liliom

First Angel: It would be too convenient if death were the end of everything.

Liliom Zadowski: What shall I say when I go before God?
Alfred: Guys like us never go before God.
Liliom Zadowski: Why not?
Alfred: Ever been before the Chief of Police?
Liliom Zadowski: No.
Alfred: People like us? We never see anyone higher than an Inspector.
Liliom Zadowski: Maybe it's different up there.
Alfred: Why would it be? God sees the big shots and leaves the riffraff to the Inspector. Angels and harps are for the big shots. For us?
Liliom Zadowski: Yes?
Alfred: For us, there's justice. In the next world, all we'll get is justice. In other words, the Inspector. And when he's around, you can be sure he'll get you in the end.

The "Angel" Commissioner: Liliom, you've been condemned to burn for 16 years to purge you of your violence and pride.
Liliom Zadowski: Sixteen years? Great! I was expecting eternity.

[last lines]
The Daughter: Mother, did anyone ever hit you? I mean a real slap that you can hear ring, and you didn't feel a thing?
Julie: Yes, my child. There was a time when someone hit me, and I didn't feel a thing.
The Daughter: Then, it is possible for someone to hit you, and not hurt you at all?
Julie: Yes, my child. Someone can beat you, and beat you, without hurting you at all.

[first lines]
Liliom Zadowski: Step right up, ladies and gentlemen! The Hippo-Palace, elegant amusement for all! Glad to see you back, ma'am. You should buy a season pass! Just like a jockey, grip with your knees! Careful with your stockings! Calling all riders! Saddle up!

Liliom Zadowski: We're offering pure pleasure, incredible sensations! Ladies first!

Mme Moscat: I want to talk to you. Hussy! What kind of place do you think this is?
Julie: I'm a working girl, I've got a good job.
Mme Moscat: Working girl, huh? I'll bet! Listen up, string bean, we don't allow your kind in the Hippo-Palace! Beat it!
Julie: "My kind?" I behave myself.
Marie: What do you take us for?
Mme Moscat: Hussies who come here to get pawed by Liliom.
Julie: I don't let anyone paw me!

Mme Moscat: [to Julie] His arm was around your waist!
Marie: Big deal! It bothers you?
Mme Moscat: I wasn't talking to you, fish face.
Julie: He puts his arm around everyone. He's just being nice.
Mme Moscat: Is that so? What about the flower? Shut up! I saw you flirting with Liliom. Go back to where you came from. There's plenty of soldiers.

Mme Moscat: There'll be no whoring in my establishment!
Liliom Zadowski: Whoring?
Julie: She claims you put your arm around me.
Liliom Zadowski: [to Mme Moscat] So? What's new? I'm no longer allowed to be nice to the ladies? I need permission? From who?
Mme Moscat: You can show off for all the other sluts, but not that one!
Liliom Zadowski: With all my deepest respect, why don't you shut your trap?

Liliom Zadowski: Honey, you can ride whenever you want, morning or night, on a deer or a horse! If you're broke, I'll treat. If anyone looks at you funny, I'll give them a spanking!

Liliom Zadowski: Apologize.
Mme Moscat: Apologize? Me? To whom?
Liliom Zadowski: This young lady.
Mme Moscat: [laughs] No way! Not for all the casinos, carnivals, or the Rothschild fortune! You can stuff your apologies!

Julie: What will you do now?
Liliom Zadowski: Have a drink.
Marie: With us?
Liliom Zadowski: If you're buying, why not? Are you rich?
Julie: I have eight...
Liliom Zadowski: Eight francs?
Julie: Eight cents.
Liliom Zadowski: [to Marie] How about you? Broke? Don't worry about it. I'll get my stuff and we'll have a drink. I'm buying.

Liliom Zadowski: Got a boyfriend?
Julie: No.
Liliom Zadowski: Don't lie.
Julie: I'm not. I'd tell you if I did. I've never had one.
Liliom Zadowski: I asked you to stay and you did. You obviously know the ropes.
Julie: Ropes?
Liliom Zadowski: Baloney! You really don't know why you're sitting in the dark with me? What's your name?
[starts copping her breast and massaging her upper thigh]
Liliom Zadowski: Your first name.
Julie: Julie.

L'inspecteur - The Detective: Julie Boulard, it's my duty to warn you about this dangerous seducer of maids. He'll promise you marriage and take everything you've got.

Liliom Zadowski: I know you're not the kind to get fat, but you're too skinny. It's true, You're as skinny as a stick.

Liliom Zadowski: If I had a sharp suit like that, they'd suck up to me too. And the Chief of Police would lick my boots! Justice? Depends on how you're dressed!

Mme Moscat: Being shut up in this dingy place is enough to give anyone the blues, but especially an artist like him!

Mme. Menoux: Did he hit you? Shame on him! Did he hurt you?
Julie: No.
Mme. Menoux: You should have slapped him back. That's what I used to do! Poor little lamb!

Mme. Menoux: The turner's quite a handsome man and he has a good job. He's very well off and would love to marry you. Aren't you interested? Liliom beats you. Between a good man and a rascal, you'd take the rascal in a flash.
Julie: It takes all kinds to make the world.
Mme. Menoux: It will end badly. One day Liliom will go too far and then...
Julie: If I have him, nothing else matters, even dying.
Mme. Menoux: Dying is easy. It's living that's difficult.

Mme. Menoux: I'd marry the turner if I were you. The good life, how wonderful! A white wedding with a veil, tiara and all! You'd have a house, money, the respect of your neighbors. Men would tip their hats to you in the street. More gifts than you could shake a stick at! You'd have a maid, I hope, someone to help with the baby. Because soon you'd have a baby. A little smiling angel dressed in real lace.

Liliom Zadowski: Since I'm dead, why can't I enjoy it? Can't we forget about all that?
The "Angel" Commissioner: You feel no remorse?
Liliom Zadowski: I want to got to sleep and never wake up.
The "Angel" Commissioner: That would be too easy. What about justice?

The "Angel" Commissioner: Why did you beat that poor girl? Because you loved her?
Liliom Zadowski: No! I hit her because she drove me to it.
The "Angel" Commissioner: You're lying.
Liliom Zadowski: No! I'm not lying. We argued back and forth, back and forth, and I got madder and madder until I hit her. That's all.

The "Angel" Commissioner: God didn't put love in men's hearts for them to be ashamed of it.

The Daughter: My mother's a seamstress. I help her by making deliveries.
Liliom Zadowski: What about your father?
The Daughter: He died a long time ago.
Liliom Zadowski: How did he die?
The Daughter: We don't know. He went to work in America. He died in a hospital there.
Liliom Zadowski: In America?
The Daughter: Yes.
Liliom Zadowski: In America?
The Daughter: Why are you surprised? Did you know him?
Liliom Zadowski: As well as myself.

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