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Richard Wanley: The streets were dark with something more than night.
[last lines]
Streetwalker: Pardon me. Will you give me a light?
Richard Wanley: No. Oh, no. Thank you indeed. Not for a million dollars.
[first lines]
Richard Wanley: [lecturing] The Biblical injunction "Thou shalt not kill" is one that requires qualification in view of our broader knowledge of impulses behind homicide. The various legal categories such as first and second degree murder, the various degrees of homicide, manslaughter, are civilized recognitions of impulses of various degrees of culpability. The man who kills in self defense, for instance, must not be judged by the same standards applied to the man who kills for gain.
Dr. Michael Barkstane: We've decided she's our dream girl just from that picture.
Alice Reed: Well, there are two general reactions. One is a kind of solemn stare for the painting.
Richard Wanley: And the other?
Alice Reed: The other is a long, low whistle.
Richard Wanley: What was mine?
Alice Reed: I'm not sure. But I suspect that in another moment or two you might have given a long, low, solemn whistle.
Richard Wanley: The flesh is still strong, but the spirit grows weaker by the hour. You know, even if the spirit of adventure should rise up before me and beckon, even in the form of that alluring young woman in the window next door, I'm afraid that all I'll do is clutch my coat a little tighter, mutter something idiotic and run like the devil.
Dr. Michael Barkstane: Not before you got her number, I hope?
Richard Wanley: Probably.
Richard Wanley: [Talking abstractly about women and sex] The flesh is still strong but the spirit grows weaker by the hour.
Alice Reed: [Offering him a drink] Let's have another.
Richard Wanley: I should say no, I know, but I haven't the slightest intention of saying it.
Dist. Atty. Frank Lalor: [In a cautionary tone] In the District Attorney's office we see what happens to middle-aged men who try acting like colts.
Richard Wanley: Well, what do you think?
Dist. Atty. Frank Lalor: [Distractedly] THe woman?
Richard Wanley: You think she's the one?
Dist. Atty. Frank Lalor: [Cynically] I don't know. She's got something on her conscience, but what woman hasn't?

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