Jules
"You break my heart… then again, you break everyone's heart.
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Billy and Wendy
"You're really going huh?"
"So, uh… are you still a virgin?"
"Why is my sexual status so important to you?"
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Leslie
"Sex isn't love."
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Kevin and Kirby
"It's true love my friend."
"Love, love… you know what love is? Love is an illusion created by lawyer types like yourself to perpetuate another illusion called marriage to create the reality of divorce and then the illusionary need for divorce."
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Kevin and Kirby
"I always thought we'd be friends forever."
"Yeah, well forever got a lot shorter all of a sudden."
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Leslie
"I just wish everything could be like it used to be! All of us friends."
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Kevin and Alec
"Marriage is a concept invented by people who were lucky enough to make it to twenty without being eaten by dinosaurs. Marriage is obsolete."
"Dinosaurs are obsolete. Marriage is still around."
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Leslie and Alec
"You cannot have the Pretenders' first album. That's mine."
"I bought it."
"You did not! You can have all the Billy Joel's… except the stranger."
"I'm taking Thriller and Mahler's ninth."
"Kevin is so fond of Mahler."
"I moved in with Jules."
"Oh how nice, roomies again… no Springsteen is leaving this house! You can have all the Carly Simon's."
"You got me those for Valentine's Day. Remember when there were still Valentine's around here?"
"You ran out on this relationship. You take the consequences."
"I didn't run out on anything. You ran out."
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Jules and Kevin
"Don't you enjoy anything anymore? Like girls?"
"I enjoy being afraid of Russia. It's a harmless fear, but it makes America feel better. Russia gets an inflated sense of national worth from our paranoia. How's that?"
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Wendy and Billy
"Do you ever feel like you're not accomplishing anything at all?"
"I think I'm in touch with that emotion."
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Kirby
"There are several quintessential moments in a man's life: losing his virginity, getting married, becoming a father, and having the right girl smile at you."
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Kevin and Leslie
"Well, you're all I think about."
"Me?"
"And I think the reason I'm not interested in other women and why I haven't had sex in so long is because I'm desperately, completely in love with you."
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Kevin and Kirby
"You are just pissed off and bitter because you have not had sex in how long? What is it, a year? Maybe two? Refresh my memory please, Kevin. Haven't you heard of the sexual revolution?"
"Who won, huh? Nobody. It used to be sex was the only free thing. No longer. Alimony, palimony, it's all financial. Love is an illusion."
"It's the only illusion that counts my friend."
"Says who?"
"Anyone who's been in love."
"Love sucks."
"So does your attitude."
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Jules and Wendy
"I thought you were taking steps to phase out everything that wasn't working in your life."
"That doesn't leave much."
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Wendy
"Oh, well, I wouldn't say my father's trying to bribe me but he did offer me a Chrysler Lebaron convertible if I got engaged to Howie."
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Kevin and Alec
"Did you tell Leslie about my screwing around?"
"No."
"I believe you, Kevin. I want you to know that I believe you and I'm sorry I hit you… Kevin, I don't think, that I am ever going to be able to get Leslie back…"
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Wendy and Jules
"We're really worried about this affair with your boss."
"I don't know why you're both so worried… so, I bop him for a couple of years, get his job when he gets his hands caught in the vault, become a legend, do a black mink ad, retire in utter disgrace, then write a best seller and be a fabulous host on my own talk show."
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Alec and Billy
"You're being arrested for drunk driving."
"Drunk definitely. I don't know if you could call it driving."
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Leslie
"Men… can't live with 'em, can't shoot 'em."
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Billy
"Looks pretty outta hand up there."
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Kevin
"You know Jules, there is the brink of insanity and then there is the abyss, which you have obviously fallen into!"
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Wendy
"No diet works. The only way to lose weight in the thighs is amputation."
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Billy
"So you lost your job? I've lost twenty of them since graduation. Plus a wife and kid. And, in a new development this morning, a handful of hair in the shower drain."
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Jules
"I never thought I'd be so tired at twenty-two. I just don't even know who to be anymore."
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Kevin
"Never trust a women who says she isn't angry."
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Billy
"Don't let her go."
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Dale Bieberman
"I don't really know you that well but you seem like a fine person. And I want you to know I'm flattered by all this. And deep down I'm sure for a long time I'll wonder if this somehow this isn't my loss."
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Billy and Jules
"Enough… I said enough!"
"Says who?"
"I say!"
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Kevin
"The whole country is falling apart and these five bars are made perfect."
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Wendy
"Jules, ya know, honey… this isn't real. You what it is? It's St Elmo's Fire. Electric flashes of light that appear in dark skies out of nowhere. Sailors would guide entire journeys by it, but the joke was on them. There was no fire. There wasn't even a St Elmo. They made it up. They made it up because they thought they needed it to keep them going when times got tough, just like you're making up all of this. We're all going through this. It's our time on the edge."
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Leslie and Kevin
"Do you think my attachment to Alec is unnatural?"
"No, I think mine is."
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Leslie and Alec involving Kevin
"What are we gonna do about your extracurricular love life, huh?"
"What extracurricular love live?"
"Alec, come on…"
"What did Kevin tell you?"
"Nothing…"
"What'd you tell her?! What'd you tell her?!"
"He told me nothing! It was just a hunch… until now."
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Wendy
"You wanna know what's great? Last night I woke up in the middle of the night to make myself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich... and ya know, it was my kitchen, it was my refrigerator, it was my apartment... and it was the best peanut butter and jelly sandwich that I have had in my entire life."
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Leslie and Alec
"I love you!"
"Then marry me!"
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Billy and Wendy
"You ever think about it?"
"Not while I'm still a virgin."
"Why didn't you ever tell me that before?"
"I don't know…"
"Come on… all those guys you went out with… well, Stewie Newman."
"Oh please… would you do it with Stewie Newman?"
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Leslie and Jules with Wendy
"You just go along with your evening with Howie."
"Yes… no matter what he looks like."
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Leslie
"Why is it that you, and Jules and my mother and everyone I know are so sure that I should marry Alec?"
"Well if you and Alec don't get married then I don't know who should."
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Billy
"I'm gonna change… I'm gonna get the right job. Look, there's gonna be no more drinking, and no more women… you're not believe how outta hand it's gonna be."
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Wendy and her Father
"Dad, do you ever hear me?"
"Well I do."
"I don't love Howie… I don't love him… I love Billy."
"Billy from the roof?"
"Yeah… yeah…"
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Alec
"Wasted love! I just wish I could get it back."
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Leslie
"I can't remember who met who first, or who fell in love with who first. All I can remember is the seven of us always together."
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I can climb the highest mountain, cross the wildest sea
I can feel St. Elmo's Fire burnin' in me, burnin' in me
Just once in his life a man has his time, and my time is now, I'm coming alive
I can hear the music playin', I can see the banners fly
Feel like you're back again, and hope ridin' high
Gonna be your man in motion, all I need is a pair of wheels
Take me where my future's lyin', St. Elmo's Fire
I can climb the highest mountain, cross the wildest sea
I can feel St. Elmo's Fire burnin' in me
TBC…