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Colette: My name is Gabrielle Colette and the hand that holds the pen writes history.
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Colette: I Can Read You Like The Top Line of an Optician's Chart.
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Colette: Did you ever feel like you were playing a part, Sido?
Sido: In what way?
Colette: As a wife. Or a mother. Like you were just going through with it.
Sido: Sometimes, as a wife. Never as a mother.
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Colette: I can read you like the top line of an optician's chart.
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Colette: It's the hand that holds the pen that writes history
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Willy: People love to talk. They praise you to your face. Then the moment you turn around there's knives in your back.
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Willy: Bad theater, it's like dentistry. You're compelled to stay in your chair having your skull drilled until the entire grisly procedure is over.
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Willy: [taking a stroll in the countryside] I don't know why you're so keen on nature. Animals are vile to each other.
Colette: Animals are honest at least. They never lie.
Willy: Yes, my dear. Well, that's because they don't speak.
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Willy: You're overreacting. This was purely a business decision.
Colette: Isn't that what our whole marriage has been? Wasn't I the best investment you ever made? No dowry, but my God, she can write for her keep!
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[last lines]
Colette: Yes, this is the dangerous, lucid hour. Now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
Colette Quotes
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