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If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.


Erich von Stroheim

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ERICH SEGAL Fue entonces cuando la terrorífica verdad empezó a imponèrseme
-¡Jenny, estamos legalmente...
ERICH SEGAL I think the Peace Corps is a fine thing, don't you?" he said.
"Well," I replied, "it's certainl...
ERICH SEGAL But what does he do to qualify as a sonovabitch?” Jenny asked.
“Make me”, I replied.
ERICH SEGAL Either way I don't come first, which for some stupid reason bothers hell out of me, having grown up ...
ERICH SEGAL I wanted to keep looking at her because I wanted to never take my eyes from her, but still I had to<...
ERICH SEGAL Jenny, if you're so con­vinced I'm a loser, why did you bull­doze me into buy­ing you cof­fee?'<...
ERICH SEGAL What term do you employ when you speak of your progenitor?"
I answered with the term I'd always...
ERICH SEGAL There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.
ERICH SEGAL Her handwriting was curious — small sharp little letters with no capitals (who did she think she wa...
ERICH SEGAL You don't know about falling off cliffs, Prep­pie,' she said. 'You never fell off one in your god­...
ERICH SEGAL