The Journey (1959)
Deborah Kerr: Diana Ashmore
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Quotes
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Diana Ashmore : [Dancing with the Major] You're drunk!
Major Surov : Yes, I am. And it's marvelous! Half my life I've been a soldier. Five campaigns, four scars, a shattered hip. And all that time, the Army's been my wife. A mean, old, possessive, insatiable, glorious bitch! And tonight I am cheating on her. And it's wonderful. Like picking flowers on a battlefield!
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Major Surov : Anything goes when people meet for the last time.
Diana Ashmore : What do you mean?
Major Surov : Go to any railway station - that's what I mean. You'll see people doing things they'd never do, ordinarily. They kiss, they cry, they wave. That's the sickness of our time: people waving... Nobody waves back.
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Diana Ashmore : Cecil and I have separated.
Hugh Deverill : You have? I'm sorry. To a confirmed bachelor like myself, you two always seemed the perfect advertisement for marital bliss. Poor Cecil. How's he taking it?
Diana Ashmore : He's getting married at Christmas.
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Diana Ashmore : Are you looking for something?
Hugh Deverill : Bloody Hungarian cooking. Do you suppose they keep any baking soda around the place?
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Hugh Deverill : Who is this Fleming? What is your relationship to him? Are you playing the scarlet pimpernel or is it something rather more personal?
Diana Ashmore : It's more personal.
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Diana Ashmore : I must say, I find your curiosity a little excessive.
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Diana Ashmore : They used every kind of torture to break him. That glove of his. Do you know why he wears it? Because his torn nails have never really healed.
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Major Surov : He's a good-looking man, Mr. Fleming.
Diana Ashmore : Mm-hmm. He's also very charming and very gay.
Major Surov : Well, besides being very charming and gay, what does he do in life?
Diana Ashmore : Uh, he's in business, as far as I know.
Major Surov : That's odd. I thought all businessmen were fat and worried.
Diana Ashmore : You shouldn't believe your own propaganda, you know.
Major Surov : Should I believe yours?
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Diana Ashmore : Look, I don't want to spoil your fun, Major, but folk dancing is a trifle breathless for me.
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Diana Ashmore : They don't want you here.
Major Surov : Why? We're here to help them, to defend them.
Diana Ashmore : From whom? From themselves?
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Diana Ashmore : Don't hurt him. Please, don't hurt him!
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Diana Ashmore : He's a good man.
Major Surov : This has nothing to do with good or bad.
Diana Ashmore : Oh, it has! Everything has!
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Major Surov : Oh, I understand, all right. But, that's entirely irrelevant.
Diana Ashmore : But, I'm losing my mind! Is that irrelevant too?
