East Side, West Side (1949)
Van Heflin: Mark Dwyer
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Quotes
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Mark Dwyer : If you lie down with dogs, Brandon, you get up with fleas.
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Mark Dwyer : Don't worry Jess. I'm not nineteen. I've heard a rumor that people don't always get what they want, and that happiness isn't the natural state of man.
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Mark Dwyer : Think I'm a stuffed shirt?
Rosa Senta : Yeah. But I like what the shirt's stuffed with.
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Mark Dwyer : All changed and all exactly the same. Just like you, Rosie. All grown up and beautiful and still that same dirty-faced kid.
Rosa Senta : Oh, Mark!
Mark Dwyer : [to Jessie Bourne] This one, she had the dirtiest face on the whole block!
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Mark Dwyer : It's been a long time since I've seen a woman's hand that wasn't blistered and rough. Your's is nice. It's - soft.
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Rosa Senta : Who were those men at the airport?
Mark Dwyer : Oh, I'm being made love to by various magazines and newspapers.
Jessie Bourne : Because of your book, "The Syndicate Man"?
Mark Dwyer : Yeah.
Jessie Bourne : One of my best friends is among those making love to you. Owen Lee.
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Mark Dwyer : You think I could bring little Dirty Face, here?
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Jessie Bourne : You ask a great many questions!
Mark Dwyer : Why, don't get mad. There's a great many things I don't know.
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Mark Dwyer : A man can only see out of his own eyes, Owen. I'll write what I see.
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Mark Dwyer : Do you always look this good?
Jessie Bourne : No, I tried especially hard tonight.
Mark Dwyer : For me, I suppose?
Jessie Bourne : Well, of course!
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Mark Dwyer : Please, don't tell me that we're strangers. Not again. Because, you know that isn't true.
Jessie Bourne : No, it isn't true. I'm - comfortable with you.
Mark Dwyer : Yeah, well, it happens that way.
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Rosa Senta : Are you all mine, till dinner, thorough dinner, and after dinner?
Mark Dwyer : Ah, just a drink.
Rosa Senta : You'd be surprised how long I can nurse one drink, mister.
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Mark Dwyer : Who's that?
Rosa Senta : That's Alec Dawning - the guy who socked Brandon at Del Rio the other night.
Mark Dwyer : For any particular reason?
Rosa Senta : Something about that Lorrison dame. He goes around with her too.
Mark Dwyer : Is it the Amazon with him?
Rosa Senta : No. I don't know who that is.
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Mark Dwyer : I lived four blocks from her. When I was a kid I used to play games in these streets.
Jessie Bourne : Olly olly oxen free.
Mark Dwyer : How did you know that?
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Mark Dwyer : If people get together, geography can't separate 'em. Not anymore. We just didn't have a chance to get together. We've sort of been passing each other enroute to different places.
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John : See what I mean? A real big girl.
Mark Dwyer : And real rough.
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Mark Dwyer : I shall now reveal the dark and hidden secrets of your life.
Bill the Bartender : I like my mother-in-law. That's the dark and hidden secret in my life.
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Mark Dwyer : Look, never walk out on anyone alone. Walk out with me. And do me a favor too, you see, my girl's giving a party for another guy and I'd like to show up there with someone - you!
Felice Backett : Why me?
Mark Dwyer : Well, because you fill the eye, honey! I've had both of my eyes filled with you ever since you walked out of that powder room.
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Brandon Bourne : I don't have to tell you how grateful I am for all you've done.
Mark Dwyer : Don't be. I'm no friend of yours.