Leveller Posted June 13, 2009 Posted June 13, 2009 So close, we're this close to it! Stay here in L.A. What? How would it work? We'd see each other, take it easy at first and then...marriage, kids, old age, and death. What if I were to go? All I know is, on the day your plane was to leave, if I had the power, I would turn the winds around, roll in the fog, I would bring in storms, I would change the polarity of the earth so compasses couldn't work, so your plane couldn't take off. This is everything I didn't want. Pain... lying... complications. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Why is it that we don't always recognize when love begins, but we always know when it ends? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy, we fought ourselves - and the enemy was in us ... The war is over for me now, but it will always be there - the rest of my days. As I am sure Elias will be - fighting with Barnes for what Rhah called possession of my soul ... There are times since I have felt like the child born of those two fathers ... but be that as it may, those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again, to teach to others what we know and to try with what's left of our lives to find a goodness and meaning to this life ... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- GEORGE: I found it out a little late. I'm worth more dead than alive. CLARENCE: Now look, you mustn't talk like that. I won't get my wings with that attitude. You just don't know all that you've done. If it hadn't been for you . . . GEORGE (interrupts): Yeah, if it hadn't been for me, everybody'd be a lot better off. My wife, and my kids and my friends. (annoyed with Clarence) Look, little fellow, go off and haunt somebody else, will you? CLARENCE: No, you don't understand. I've got my job . . . GEORGE (savagely): Aw, shut up, will you. Clarence is not getting far with George. He glances up, paces across the room, thoughtfully. CLARENCE (to himself): Hmmm, this isn't going to be so easy. (to George) So you still think killing yourself would make everyone feel happier, eh? GEORGE (dejectedly): Oh, I don't know. I guess you're right. I suppose it would have been better if I'd never been born at all. CLARENCE: What'd you say? GEORGE: I said I wish I'd never been born. CLARENCE: Oh, you mustn't say things like that. You . . . (gets an idea) . . . wait a minute. Wait a minute. That's an idea. (glances up toward Heaven) What do you think? Yeah, that'll do it. All right. (to George) You've got your wish. You've never been born. As Clarence speaks this line, the snow stops falling outside the building, a strong wind springs up which blows open the door to the shack. Clarence runs to close the door. CLARENCE (cont'd) (looking upward) You don't have to make all that fuss about it. As Clarence speaks, George cocks his head curiously, favoring his deaf ear, more interested in his hearing than in what Clarence has said. GEORGE: What did you say? CLARENCE: You've never been born. You don't exist. You haven't a care in the world. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GEORGE: Clarence! Clarence! Help me, Clarence. Get me back. Get me back. I don't care what happens to me. Only get me back to my wife and kids. Help me, Clarence, please! Please! I want to live again! CLOSEUP –– George leaning on the bridge railing, praying. GEORGE: I want to live again. I want to live again. Please, God, let me live again. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This should be easy. Each of these quotes has meanings for me in terms of love, life and loss. Does anyone have any others?
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