Beyond the Forest (1949)
Minor Watson: Moose Lawson
Quotes
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Moose : [after Rosa shoots a porcupine out of a tree] A fat lot of good that did you.
Rosa Moline : [Sets the rifle down] I don't like porkies. They irritate me.
Moose : You don't like life.
Rosa Moline : Life in Loyalton is like sitting in the funeral parlor and waiting for the funeral to begin. No, not sitting. Lying in a coffin and waiting for them to carry you out.
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Moose : You're somethin' for the birds, Rosa, somethin' for the birds.
Rosa Moline : And you're somethin' to make the corn grow tall!
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Rosa Moline : What makes you think you can play God?
Moose : I'm not playing God exactly... but I'm on his side.
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Carol Lawson : Hello. We meet again. My name's Carol, Moose's daughter.
Rosa Moline : [Stunned] Moose's daughter? Carol Lawson. Well, this is something. Something pretty wonderful, I think. Why did you keep her a secret so long, Moose?
Carol Lawson : It's no secret. I always knew I had a real father somewhere.
Moose : I ran away and left her. Imagine that.
Carol Lawson : And by the time he started to look for us again, my mother had divorced him and remarried. And now that I've found him, that's all that matters.