Friday, May 19, 2023

Movie Quotes from Closer: A Play

“Larry: She doesn't want to be happy.
Dan: Everybody wants to be happy.
Larry: Depressives don't. They want to be unhappy to confirm they're depressed. If they were happy they couldn't be depressed anymore. They'd have to go out into the world and live. Which can be depressing.
Patrick Marber 

 “Everything is a version of something else”
Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play

  “What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.”
Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play 

 “A million years ago - some hairy bastard daubed a horse on the wall of his cave, he saw it, he drew it - well done! Flash forward: 'Hello, welcome to my vlog. Today I bought a plum”
Patrick Marber, Don Juan in Soho: After Molière 

 “Pleasure and self destruction...The perfect poison.”
Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play 

 “Alice: Is it because she's successful?
Dan: No. It's because... she doesn't need me.”
Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play 

“Deception is brutal, I'm not pretending otherwise.”
Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play 

“Thank God life ends—we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious...our bodies will kill us...our bones will outlive us.”
Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play