Midterm Flashcards
Kinda’ place you wish you sorta’ grew up in, ya’ know.
True West - Lee
what kinda’ people kill each other the most.
True West - Lee
Lonely Are the Brave.
True West - Lee
The man dies for the love of a horse.
True West - Lee
Don’t you say that to me! Don’t you ever say that to me!
True West - Lee
Buy him off with yer Hollywood blood money, but not me! I can git my own
money my own way. Big money!
True West - Lee
Those are the most monotonous fuckin’ crickets I ever heard in my life.
True West - Lee
Supposed to be able to tell the temperature by the number a’ pulses. You believe that?
True West -Lee (crickets)
Damn I made some good money off that little dog. Real good
money.
True West - Lee
Now who in the hell wants to eat offa’ plate with the State of Idaho starin’
ya’ in the face. Every time ya’ take a bite ya’ get to see a little bit more.
True West - Lee
Well it must mean something to her or she wouldn’t save it.
True West - Austin
Like a paradise. Kinda’ place that sorta’ kills ya’ inside. Warm yellow
lights. Mexican tile all around. Copper pots hangin’ over stove.
True West - Lee
This place is like a fuckin’ rest home here. How’re you supposed to think!
True West - Lee
Hangin’ around bein’ a parasite offa’ other fools.
True West - Lee
We’re not insane. We’re not driven to acts of violence like that.
True West - Austin
Ridin’ back and forth on the freeway just dreamin’ my fool head off
True West - Lee
Each one separately thinks that he’s the only one that’s afraid.
True West - Lee
And the one who’s chasin’ doesn’t know where the other one is taking him. And the one who’s being chased doesn’t know where he’s going.
True West - Lee
Between you, the coyotes and the crickets a thought don’t have much of a chance
True West - Lee
we all sound alike when we’re sloshed. We just sorta’ echo each other
True West - Austin
First he lost his real teeth, then he lost his false teeth.
True West - Austin
And in one a’ those bars, in one a’ those bars up and down the highway, he left that doggie bag with his teeth laying in the Chop Suey.
True West - Austin
I mean is it a prerequisite for a criminal not to have a conscience?
True West - Austin
I love the smell of toast. And the sun’s coming up. It makes me feel like anything’s possible. Ya’ know?
True West - Austin
Streets I can’t tell if I lived on or saw in a postcard.
True West - Austin
I keep finding myself getting off the freeway at familiar landmarks that turn out to be unfamiliar.
True West - Austin
All this town does is drive a man insane.
True West - Lee
This place is like a fuckin’ rest home here. How’re you supposed to think!
True West - Lee
Hangin’ around bein’ a parasite offa’ other fools.
True West - Lee
We’re not insane. We’re not driven to acts of violence like that.
True West - Austin
Ridin’ back and forth on the freeway just dreamin’ my fool head off
True West - Lee
Each one separately thinks that he’s the only one that’s afraid.
True West - Lee
And the one who’s chasin’ doesn’t know where the other one is taking him. And the one who’s being chased doesn’t know where he’s going.
True West - Lee
Between you, the coyotes and the crickets a thought don’t have much of a chance
True West - Lee
we all sound alike when we’re sloshed. We just sorta’ echo each other
True West - Austin
First he lost his real teeth, then he lost his false teeth.
True West - Austin
And in one a’ those bars, in one a’ those bars up and down the highway, he left that doggie bag with his teeth laying in the Chop Suey.
True West - Austin
I mean is it a prerequisite for a criminal not to have a conscience?
True West - Austin
I love the smell of toast. And the sun’s coming up. It makes me feel like anything’s possible. Ya’ know?
True West - Austin
Streets I can’t tell if I lived on or saw in a postcard.
True West - Austin
I keep finding myself getting off the freeway at familiar landmarks that turn out to be unfamiliar.
True West - Austin
All this town does is drive a man insane.
True West - Lee
Zoo Story
Peter and Jerry
Peter businessman
kills Jerry
Have I been walking North?
Zoo Story - Jerry
Your’re an eduated man, aren’t you?
Zoo Story - Jerry
Every once in awhile I like to talk to somebody, really talk; like get to know somebody, know all about him.
Zoo Story - Jerry
There are two parakeets. One for each of my daughters
Zoo Story - Peter
you dodn’t really carry on a conversation; you just ask questions
Zoo Story - Peter
Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come bac a short distance correctly
Zoo Story - Jerry
two picture frames, both empty
Zoo Story - Jerry
She embarked on an adulterous turn of our souther states…a journey of a year’s duration… and her most constasnt companion … was a Mr. Barleycorn
Zoo Story - Jerry
I’ve never been able to have sex with …. anybody more than once
Zoo Story - Jerry
And for those 11 days I met at least twice a day with the park superintendent’s son.
Zoo Story - Jerry
It’s that when you’re a kid you use the cards as a substitute for real experience, and when you’re older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy
Zoo Story - Jerry
she and her dog are the gatekeepers of my dwelling
Zoo Story - Jerry
malevolence with an erection
Zoo Story - Jerry
I have learned that neither kindness nor cruelty by themselves, independent of each other, creates any effect beyond themselves; and I have learned that the two combined, together, at the same time, are the teaching emotion.
Zoo Story - Jerry
People can’t have everything they want. you should know that; it’s a rule; people can have some of the tings they want, but they can’t have everything
Zoo Story - Peter
get off here and give me my bench
Zoo Story - Jerry
Don’t you have any idea, not even the slightest, what other people need?
Zoo Story - Jerry
You fight for your self respect; you fight for that goddamned bench
Zoo Story - Jerry
I came unto you and you have comforted me.
Zoo Story - Jerry
The Hothouse
Roote Gibb Lamb Miss Cutts Lush Tubb Lobb
Asylum
experimenting on people
no one allowed in - one mother gets in
some disaster happens and Gibb is only one left (maybe Lamb)