Colonel Ludlow: Screw'm! Screw'm all! Screw the gov'm'nt!
Alfred: Susannah, you deserve to be happy.
Susannah: Tristan, I have no where to send this letter and no reason to believe you wish to receive it. I write it only for myself. And so I will hide it away with all things left unsaid and undone between us.
Samuel: Still hung over?
Tristan: Still drunk!
Susannah: Were you going to say goodbye? Tristan? How long will you be gone?
Tristan: Not long. A few months.
Susannah: I can make it better for you.
Tristan: No.
Susannah: If we'd had a child or if I were pregnant, would you still be going?
Tristan: Yes.
Susannah: Just give me a chance.
Tristan: Don't do that.
Susannah: Look at me. Please, look at me. I'll wait for you. However long it takes. I'll wait for you forever.
Susannah: I still sometimes dream that I'm the mother of your children. I wanted her to die.
Susannah: Forever turned out to be too long.
One Stab: Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, but they become legends.
Tristan: Samuel, God bless you. You are good at everything you try to do. I'm sure it'll be the same with fucking.
Samuel: Tristan, really. We're talking about my future wife.
Tristan: Oh, you're not gonna fuck her?
Samuel: No! I'm planning to be with her.
Tristan: I recommend fucking.
Samuel: You're impossible!
Tristan: You brought it up!
Tristan: You know when Samuel died... when Samuel died, I cursed God. Did I damn everybody around me as well as myself?
Alfred: I followed all of the rules, man's and God's. And you, you followed none of them. And they all loved you more. Samuel, Father, and my... even my own wife.
One Stab: I thought Tristan would never live to be an old man. I was wrong about that. I was wrong about many things. It was those who loved him the most that died young. He was a rock they broke themselves against however much he tried to protect them.
[going off to war]
Samuel: I'll bring you back the kaiser's helmet.
Colonel Ludlow: Bring yourself back. That'd please me more.
Colonel Ludlow: Don't talk to me boy as if I've never seen a war!
Tristan: You guys look like a bunch of ice-cream cones!
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