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    I am tired of loving a foreign muse.
    Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943)

    Comes from a fine family. So she tells me. Brother’s a priest, all that. But, you know, death, disaster, unfortunate investments. One day she’s a little princess, up on the hill. Next, she’s down there, working the bars for the best she can.
    Peter Prince, British screenwriter, and Stephen Frears. Harry (Bill Hunter)

    How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers/The buck in the snow.
    —Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

    Mrs. Robinson, you’re trying to seduce me. Aren’t you?
    Calder Willingham, screenwriter, Buck Henry, screenwriter, and Mike Nichols. Ben Braddock (Dustin Hoffman)