1
Tunner- We must be the first tourists since the war.
Kit- We're not tourists. We're travelers.
Tunner- What's the difference
Port- A tourist thinks about going home the moment they arrive, Tunner.
Kit- Whereas a traveler might notcome back at all.
Tunner- You mean, I'm a tourist?
Kit- Yes, Tunner. And I'm half and half.
2 Port- Kit has days when everything in the world is a sign for something else. A white Mercedes can't justsimply be a white Mercedes. It must have a secret meaning about the whole of life. Everything is an omen. Nothing can just be what it is.
3
Port- Maybe we're both afraid of loving too much.
4 - Are you lost?
Kit-Yes.
- Because we don't know when we will die... we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well,
Things happen only a certain numberof times,
And a small number, really,
How many times will you remember an afternoon of your childhood...an afternoon so deeply a partof you that you can't be without it
Perhaps four or five times more,
Perhaps not even that,
How many times will you watch the moon rise?
Perhaps 20,
And yet it all seems limitless...
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