The Man I Love (1946)

Bruce Bennett: San Thomas

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Quotes 

• San Thomas : I ran down like a clock. It was just as though I'd been wound up too tight and the spring broke.

• San Thomas : I'd make you sing the blues, honey.

  Petey Brown : I'll take that chance.

• San Thomas : Isn't life difficult enough without mixing it up with memories?

  Petey Brown : I don't know. Mine don't go back far enough yet.

• [last lines] 

  San Thomas : Remember what you once told me when I was low: all of us are standing in the mud, well...

  Petey Brown : Some of us are looking at the stars.

  San Thomas : Here's lookin' at ya, baby.

• Petey Brown : Life's full of kicks, isn't it?

  San Thomas : That's what I've heard.

• San Thomas : You wanna go back?

  Petey Brown : No, I never wanna go back.

• San Thomas : Why do you think I came down to a joint like this as soon as I could?

  Petey Brown : Yeah. Yeah, I get it. Music. Bad liquor.

  San Thomas : It's hard to break the habit.

  Petey Brown : Well, why would you want to break the habit?

• San Thomas : I kept trying to make that piano do a lot of things I guess no one guy can do. It started me drinking too much.

  Petey Brown : Yeah. I know what you mean. Everything looks nice and sharp when you've had a couple. But, when the edge wears off, the whole works is a dull finish. It's no good.

  San Thomas : Yeah, that's the way it was with me. Then, I really went haywire.

• San Thomas : Petey, you're swell. I don't want to mess up your life too.

  Petey Brown : Look, let me handle my funeral in my own way, will you?

  [kiss] 

• San Thomas : I was as crazy about that dame as I was about music.

• Petey Brown : You certainly worked hard at running away from yourself, haven't you? And you're still unhappy.

  San Thomas : Who's looking for happiness? At the present time, my life's a comfortable blank and that's okay with me.

• Petey Brown : She put you through the wringer, didn't she? I wonder what women like that have got?

  San Thomas : I don't know; but, she had it. Whatever it is.

• San Thomas : And that's it?

  Petey Brown : That's it!

• Petey Brown : She still does something to you, doesn't she?

  San Thomas : Oh, I don't know, Petey. There've been months at a time I never gave her a thought. Then, something happens, it reminds me of her. A screwy hat on some girl passing in the street. A pair of slim legs. High heels clicking in the pavement.

• San Thomas : Doesn't what I've said to you make sense?

  [Petey shakes her head no] 

  San Thomas : You crazy little dame, you.

  [kiss] 

• San Thomas : I don't know what makes me tick, Petey. I just know that I've been running away from life for a long time and it keeps catching up with me.