All my life I've been running, from welfare officers, thugs, my father. See, there they are [the killers]. There on the bridge. I'...m a dead man. Nosseros told me that. He told me. He said, "You got it all, but you're a dead man, Harry Fabian."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Eddie: Say, was you ever bit by a dead bee? Beauclerc: I have no memory of ever being bitten by any kind of bee.... Slim: Were you? Eddie: You're all right lady. You and Harry's the only one that ever-- Harry: Don't forget Frenchy. Eddie: That's right. You and Harry and Frenchy. You know you gotta be careful of dead bees, if you go around barefooted. Cause if you step on 'em they can sting ya just as bad as if they was alive, especially is they was kinda mad when they got killed. I bet I been bit a hundred times that way. Slim: You have. Why don't you bite them back? Eddie: That's what Harry always says. But I ain't got no stinger.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Harry: I don't know when you'll get back home. Could be a long time. Slim: Could be forever, or are you afraid of that? I'm h...ard to get, Steve. All you have to do is ask me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Harry Morgan: Walk around me. No, go ahead. Walk around me, clear around. Do ya find anything? Slim/Marie Brown: No, no Steve.... There are no strings tied to you. Not yet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Paul de Bursac: You don't think much of me, Captain Morgan. You're wondering why they have chosen me for this mission. I wonder to...o. As you know, I am not a brave man. On the contrary, I'm always frightened. I wish I could borrow your nature for awhile, Captain. When you meet danger, you never think of anything except how you will circumvent it. The word failure does not even exist for you. While I, I think always, suppose I fail and that I am frightened. Harry Morgan: Yeah, I can easily see how it wouldn't take much courage to get a notorious patriot off Devils' Island. But uh, but just for professional reasons, I'd like to know how you're going to do it. Paul de Bursac: We will find a way. It might fail, and if it does and I'm, I'm still alive, I will try to pass on my information, my mission, to someone else, perhaps to a better man who does not fail. Because there is always someone else. That is the mistake the Germans always make with people they try to destroy. There will be always someone else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Slim/Marie Brown: Whadya think you're gonna do? Harry Morgan: I'm gonna get that wallet, Slim.... Marie: I'd rather you wouldn't call me Slim. I'm a little too skinny to take it kindly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mirror in the hat store is triplicate, so that you see yourself not only head-on but from each side. The appearance that I pre...sent to myself in this mirror is that of three police-department photographs showing all possible approaches to Harry DuChamps, alias Harry Duval, alias Harry Duffy, wanted in Rochester for the murder of Nettie Lubitch, age 5.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People named John and Mary never divorce. For better or for worse, in madness and in saneness, they seem bound together for eterni...ty by their rudimentary nomenclature. They may loathe and despise one another, quarrel, weep, and commit mayhem, but they are not free to divorce. Tom, Dick, and Harry can go to Reno on a whim, but nothing short of death can separate John and Mary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »