“That's the most stupid expression in the world. 'I fell in love'—as if you had no choice. There's a moment, there's always a moment; I can do this, I can give in to this or I can resist it. I don't know when your moment was but I bet there was one.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“I love everything about you that hurts.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“• Dan: I love you.
• Alice: Where?
• Dan: What?
• Alice: Show me. Where is this 'love'? I can't see it, I can't touch it, I can't feel it. I can hear it, I can hear some words but I can't do anything with your easy words.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“Have you ever seen a human heart? It looks like a fist, wrapped in blood! Go fuck yourself!”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“Everything is a version of something else.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“I don't love you anymore. Goodbye.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“I know who you are. I love you. I love everything about you that hurts.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“Alice: I don’t love you anymore. Goodbye.
Dan: Since when?
Alice: Now. Just now.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye."
Dan: Supposing you do still love them?
Alice: You don't leave.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“We arrive with our...'baggage' and for a while they're brilliant, they're 'Baggage Handlers.' We say, 'Where's your baggage?' They deny all knowledge of it...'They're in love'...they have none. Then...just as you're relaxing...a Great Big Juggernaut arrives...with their baggage. It Got Held Up. One of the greatest myths men have about women is that we overpack.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“DAN
What do you want?
ALICE
To be loved.
DAN
That simple?
ALICE
It's a big want.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“I am waiting for a man to come in here and fuck me sideways with a beautiful line like that”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“Men want a girl who looks like a boy. They want to protect her but she must be a survivor. And she must come...like a train...but with...elegance.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“Deception is brutal, I'm not pretending otherwise.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“Dan: You've ruined my life.
Anna: You'll get over it.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“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, quote from Closer
“Alice: Is it because she's successful?
Dan: No. It's because... she doesn't need me.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“Pleasure and self destruction...The perfect poison.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“Alice: Did you phone her, beg her to come back - when you went for lovely walks?
Dan: Yes.
Alice: You're a piece of shit.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“Anna: Since my opening last year...I'm disgusting.
Larry: You're phenomenal. You're so clever.”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
“Everything is a version of something else”
― Patrick Marber, quote from Closer
Patrick Marber
Born place: in Wimbledon, London, The United Kingdom
Born date September 19, 1964
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“Because I love you, nobody else will ever touch me. Even though you are constantly touched.”
― Mary Elizabeth, quote from Innocents
“Because traditions are soothing when everything else goes to hell.”
― Courtney Cole, quote from Nocte
“Covek je stvorenje nacinjeno na kraju radne nedelje kad se Bog umorio. I cemu je trebalo celi ovaj globus stvarati u zurbi, za sest dana. Da se potrosilo malo vise vremena, svet se ne bi trebalo toliko popravljati i poboljsavati. Slicno se desava kad na brzinu sklepas kucu, pa u zurbi zaboravis WC, ili spremiste za metle, i to onda moras naknadno dograditi, bez obzira koliko te to kostalo novaca ili zivaca.”
― Mark Twain, quote from The Autobiography of Mark Twain
“It is for this girl that the young man is looking. Day after day he wakes in morning and goes searching for her. In his work, and in his life on mornings that are not miraculous and afternoons that are sundry and various, he saves the corners of his eyes for her, and watches at all times the entrances and exits of every establishment to which he comes. For he knows that eventually, in time and given some protracted period of days, weeks, and months, he will come up on her, and know her in an instant for who she is.”
― Jesse Ball, quote from The Way Through Doors
“no saint goes without sinning, and no sinner goes without having some saintly qualities. You can judge one for their mistakes, or you can love them for the flaws they try to correct. ”
― quote from Hooked on the Game
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