"Where is your mountain?"

Not Quite Human 2 (1989)

"How can I make you believe that you can do something whenever you wanted to, anything you wished." 

"I'd have to be reprogrammed." 

"Come with me. ... Do you have a terminal?"

never shoot a homeboy

"Then in order to become more human, I have to learn the expressions that don't exactly mean what they say... otherwise, I might spill the barf burgers."

Chip Carson, Not Quite Human (1987)

"She gon' see some shit that she don't wanna see. She ain't ready for it. (...bein' humble doesn't work as well as bein' aware.)"

"May the Giant Be with You," Twin Peaks (1990)

"...it just proves the point that once a traveller leaves his home, he loses almost 100% of his ability to control the environment."

Agent Dale Cooper, "Cooper's Dream," Twin Peaks (1990)

"I won't worry, Dad, I don't know how."

"Don't push it, Aluminum-Breath!"

Angel Heart (1987)

"'They looked absurd, old and ugly in their black habits, with starting eyes, ready and prepared for... martyrdom.'"

The Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa

Gloria! (1979)

Mon Oncle d'Amérique (1980)

"the sacrament of penance had accustomed him to naked souls, but he wasfar less used to naked bodies"

Rain Man (1988)

"...'Is Your Excellency coming to confession?' The Prince, whose sleep that night and conversations that morning had driven the episode of the previous night from his mind, looked amazed. 'Confession? It's not Saturday.' 

Then he remembered and smiled. 'Really, Father, there wouldn't even be need, would there? You know it already.' 

This insistence on his enforced complicity irritated the Jesuit. 'Excellency, the efficacy of confession consists not only in telling our sins but in being sorry for them. And until you do so and show me you do so, you will remain in mortal sin, whether I know what your sins are or not.' He blew a meticulous puff at a bit of fluff on his sleeve and plunged back into abstractions."

The Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa

"And when she woke up? When she woke up she no longer knew who she was. Only later did she think with satisfaction: I am a typist and a virgin and I like coca-cola. Only then did she dress herself in herself, she spent the rest of her day obediently playing the role of being."

The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector

"Only the violent impact of his feet on loose stones in the street showed his internal conflict..."

The Escape Artist (1982)

The Leopard, Giuseppe di Lampedusa

We'd gone for a drive
in mom's new convertible:
top down, winter night.

At every street turn,
at the base of each judgement:
hope, that we looked cool.

"'I'm good at nothing but listening and waiting,...'"

Barfly (1987)

"'The way you are now, you're just slinking around corners and expiring in sentimental longings not truly worthy of a citizen, human being and above all a man."'

The Tanners, Robert Walser

I'am hymn!

Maniac Cop (1988)

"Still lying there in bed, he resolved to be more industrious from now on, to study something, a language for example, and in general to start living more regulated existence. He'd let so much slip though his fingers! Learning surely brought a person great pleasure. It was so lovely to engage in these heartfelt, vivid imaginings of how it would be to keep studying and studying assiduously, never once emerging from one's studies. He sensed a certain human maturity within him: And how much lovelier all this studying would be if approached with the sum of this already attained maturity. Yes, that's what he should do now: study, set himself tasks, and take pleasure in uniting both teacher and pupil within his own person."

The Tanners, Robert Walser

"I am warming up my body to get started, rubbing my hands together to work up the nerve."

Belly of an Architect (1987)

The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispecter

hardwood floors

"'Perhaps I'm expressing myself in an exaggerated way, and I'm also quite aware that all or most people to whom I might say these things would find them exaggerated. But my way of speaking accords with my view of life; surely it's out of the question I might speak some other way. I haven't yet learned to feign contentment, satisfaction or a sense of well-being I don't feel, and anyone who thinks I might learn is mistaken. I'm too weak to pretend and deceive... It's such a relief to be permitted to confess one's weakness after months of nerve-racking restraint, which have demanded more strength than I possess. Since I cannot possibly go on indefinitely performing duties that bring out the worst in me, I'm now looking for work that will appeal both to my pride and to my weakness. Shall I succeed in finding it? I truly cannot say, but one thing I do know for certain is that I must search until I've succeeded in convincing myself that happiness and duty can coincide. ... 

... I cannot live and at the same time despise my life. I must find myself a life, and a new life, even if all of life consists only of an endless search for life.'" 

The Tanners, Robert Walser

tobacco tongue bath

Assassination (1987)

"'...but what's the point of pondering this further? I have other things to think about. For example, I feel happy this morning--my limbs feel like fine flexible wires. When I feel my limbs, I am happy, and then I'm not thinking of any other person on earth, not a woman, not a man, I'm quite simply thinking nothing at all.'"

The Tanners, Robert Walser

"'But you're at the bottom of the funnel, bud.'"

Hopscotch, Julio Cortázar