All My Sons: Who Said That? – Flashcards
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'That was a very happy family used to live in your house, Jim.'
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Joe
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'Well that's what a war does. I had two sons, now I got one. It changed all the tallies.'
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Joe
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'It's time she realised that nobody believes Larry is alive anymore.'
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Chris
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'I ignore what I gotta ignore. The girl is Larry's girl.'
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Joe
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'I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer. My whole bloody life, time after time after time.'
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Chris
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'You marry that girl, and you're pronouncing him dead.'
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Joe
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'I've been a good son too long, a good sucker. I'm through with it.'
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Chris
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'Because what the hell did I work for? That's only for you, Chris, the whole shootin' match is for you!
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Joe
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'I used to think that when I got money again I would have a maid, and my wife would take it easy. Now I got money, and I got a maid, and my wife is workin' for the maid.'
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Joe
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'It's so funny; everything decides to happen at the same time. This month is his birthday, his tree blows down, Annie comes. Everything that happened seems to be coming back.'
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Kate
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'We never took up our lives again. We're like at a railroad station waiting for a train that never comes in.'
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Chris
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'She's not his girl, Joe; she knows she's not.'
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Kate
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'I want you to act like he's coming back, both of you.'
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Kate
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'Because if he's not coming back, I'll kill myself!'
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Kate
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'Gosh, those dear dead days beyond recall.'"
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Ann
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'They don't say it on the radio, but I'm sure that in the dark at night, they're still waiting for their sons.'
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Kate
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'You mean am I still waiting for him? Well. I'm not, Kate.'
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Ann
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Because certain things have to be, and certain things can never be.'
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Kate
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The last thing I remember on this block was one word, Murderers!'
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Ann
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'Every Saturday night, the whole gang is playing poker in this arbor. All the ones who yelled murderer takin' my money now.'
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Joe
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'The man was a fool, but don't make a murderer out of him.'
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Joe
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'If I could have gone in that day I'd a told him: junk 'em, Steve, we can afford it. But alone he was afraid.'
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Joe
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They didn't die, they killed themselves for each other. I mean that exactly; a little more selfish and they'd have been here today'.
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Chris
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'And then I came home and it was incredible. I .. there was no meaning in it here; the whole thing to them was kind of a bus accident. I went to work with Dad, and that rat-race again. Nobody was changed at all.'
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Chris
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'Sometimes I think you're.. ashamed of the money,'
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Joe
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'We're dumb Chris, Dad and I are stupid people. We don't know anything. You've got to protect us.'
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Kate
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'If they open the case again I won't live through it.'
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Kate
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'It's very unusual to me, marrying the brother of your sweetheart.'
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Sue
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'And he got money. That's important, you know.'
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Sue
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'Chris makes people want to be better than it's possible to be.'
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Sue
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'I resent living next door to the Holy Family. It makes me look like a bum, you understand?'
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Sue
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'Do you think I could forgive him if he'd done that thing?'
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Chris
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'I got so many lieutenants, majors and colonels that I'm ashamed to ask somebody to sweep the floor.'
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Joe
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'My only accomplishment is my son.'
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Joe
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You're not going to marry him...Because his father destroyed your family.'
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George
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'He loved you so much...Annie...we did a terrible thing.'
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George
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'Dad was afraid. He wanted Joe there if he was going to do it. But Joe can't come down...he's sick. Sick! He suddenly gets the flu! But he promised to take responsibility.'
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George
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'Your dad took everything we have. I can't beat that. But she's one item he's not going to grab.'
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George
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'Everything they have is covered in blood.'
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George
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'I wear the pants and she beats me with the belt.'
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Joe
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'Twenty five years, the man never learned to take the blame.'
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Joe
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'Your brother's alive, darling, because if he's dead, your father killed him.'
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Kate
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'God does not let a son be killed by his father.'
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Kate
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'Dad...dad, you killed twenty one men!'
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Chris
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'I'm in business, a man is in business; a hundred and twenty cracked, you're out of business.'
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Joe
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You lay forty years into a business and they knock you out in five minutes.'
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Joe
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'I was dying every day and you were killing my boys and you did it for me?'
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Chris
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'You're not even an animal, no animal kills his own, what are you?'
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Chris
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'You wanted money, so I made money. What must I be forgiven?'
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Joe
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'I'm his father and he's my son, and if there's something bigger than that I'll put a bullet in my head!'
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Joe
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'He loved you Joe, you broke his heart.'
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Kate
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'I could jail him, if I were human any more. But I'm like everyone else now. I'm practical now.'
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Chris
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'I'm a dead man, I'm an old dead man, nothing's mine.'
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Joe
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'I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better.'
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Chris
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'Sure, he was my son. But I think to him, they were all my sons. And I guess they were, I guess they were.'
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Joe
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'You can be better! Once and for all you can know that there's a universe of people outside and you're responsible to it.'
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Chris
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'It's wrong to pity a man like that. Father or no father, there's only one way to look at him. He knowingly shipped out parts that would crash an airplane.'
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Ann
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'You're the only one I know who loves his parents. / I know. It went out of style, didn't it?'
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Chris
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'I owe him a good kick in the teeth, but he's your father.'
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Joe
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'You had big principles...so now I got a tree, and this one when the weather gets bad he can't stand on his feet...'
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Kate
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'...every man does have a star. The star of one's honesty. And you spend your life groping for it, but once it's out it never lights again...He probably just wanted to be alone to watch his star go out.'
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Jim
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'I thought I had a family here. What happened to my family?'
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Joe
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'Goddam, if Larry was alive he wouldn't act like this. He understood the way the world is made...To him the world had a forty-foot front, it ended at the building line.'
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Joe
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'This is the land of the great big dogs, you don't love a man here, you eat him.
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Chris
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'Don't take it on yourself. Forget now. Live.'
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