Random Harvest (1942)
Greer Garson: Paula
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Quotes
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Smithy : Isn't there something morbid in burying one's heart with the dead?
Paula : That's a strange thing for you to say. Your capacity for loving, your joy in living, is buried in a little space of time you've forgotten.
Smithy : In some vague way, I still have...
Paula : ...hope?
Smithy : Yes, I suppose that's it.
Paula : Have you, Charles? Do you feel that there... really is someone? That someday you may find her? You may have... come so near her, may even have brushed her on the street... You might even have met her, Charles. Met her and not known her. It might be someone you know, Charles. It might... it might even be me.
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Paula : Oh Smithy, You're ruining my makeup.
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Paula : Smithy, do I always have to take the initiative? You're supposed to kiss me.
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Smithy : Paula, it's - it's a lot of nerve, but - I'm - I've fallen in love with you. I'm asking you to marry me, on a - on a check for two guineas.
Paula : Smithy, don't ask me, please. I might take you up on it. I'm just that shameless. I've run after you from the very beginning; you know I have. I've never let you out of my sight since I first saw you in that little shop.
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Paula : [in the verge of tears] He'd resent me. He'd accept me. He'd pity me... And he'd resent me.
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Paula : You are from the asylum, aren't you? Aren't you?
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Paula : Dear John - thank you for the hope!
Dr. Jonathan Benet : That is rather nice of me, seeing that it robs me of mine.