Another Dawn (1937)
Kay Francis: Julia Ashton Wister
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Quotes
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Julia Ashton Wister : We can't be blamed for what we want, only for what we do.
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Julia Ashton : His luck held out. He died clean and young, before anything could grow old or dim. He was always ahead of life and finally lost it in the sunset; before they catch up with him and make him pay for all the beauty and glamour and laughter it gave him. He died - owing life.
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Julia Ashton : You know, although we're ashamed of it, every honest woman knows that her life has but one love. And, however long it lasts, its hers forever.
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Col John Wister : To whom and to what are you going back to America?
Julia Ashton : To nothing and to none. That's why I'm going there. Instead of staying here were I've been happy. It's a little too difficult to try and build a new life from the ashes of the old.
Col John Wister : And what do you expect of this new life? Happiness? A career?
Julia Ashton : I haven't the talent for a career. Nor, the capacity for happiness anymore. No. All I'm looking for is contentment. The opportunity to be useful enough to justify living.
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Capt. Denny Roark : Listen.
Julia Ashton Wister : What is it?
Capt. Denny Roark : Bedouin music.
Julia Ashton Wister : Strange and wistful, isn't it?
Capt. Denny Roark : I've heard that love song a thousand times. The next time it sounds like the first.
Julia Ashton Wister : Somehow, it seems to go with the desert and the night. Sort of a melodic will-o-the-wisp, that dares your emotions to follow it.
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Capt. Denny Roark : I don't know what it is.
Julia Ashton Wister : I know. It's life - and the desire to live every moment! So that, if it would be your last, you could die laughing - because it owes you nothing.
Capt. Denny Roark : Maybe that.
Julia Ashton Wister : It is that! I know! That's a beautiful way to live. Never lose that. Never let your life live from one dawn to the other. Fly into your tomorrows!
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Julia Ashton Wister : I can't stay here, Denny. I can't! Respecting him. Loving you! Hating myself! It's just not possible.
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Julia Ashton Wister : Denny, it's not dangerous, is it?
Capt. Denny Roark : If it were, you'd hear my knees rattling all over the place.
Julia Ashton Wister : I'm frightened.
Capt. Denny Roark : You shouldn't be. Why, if I thought there were any risks, I'd be saying all sorts of silly things to you, like - I love you.
Julia Ashton Wister : You mustn't say that.
Capt. Denny Roark : I won't - again.
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Capt. Denny Roark : He's not coming back.
Julia Ashton Wister : Why'd he do it, Denny?
Capt. Denny Roark : To give us that - another dawn.
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Victor Romkoff - Tobacco Tycoon : You are traveling alone, the purser told me. You must find it - not very amusing, no?
Julia Ashton : At the present moment I find it - revolting.
Victor Romkoff - Tobacco Tycoon : Do you? How charming. I see we understand each other.
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Julia Ashton : Three years. Three ecstatic years. In which I spent all the love I had to buy a memory so beautiful, they compensate for never being able to love again.
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Julia Ashton : What was that?
Col John Wister : Oh, nothing. Just one of those pat Arabic phrases that fit almost anything.
Julia Ashton : What does it mean?
Col John Wister : It means, the hopes we have for tomorrow, die today.
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Capt. Denny Roark : Why so pensive? This wind sandpapering your nerves a little?
Julia Ashton Wister : It is a bit nagging, isn't it?
Capt. Denny Roark : Rather. It's been known to make mutes scream. The natives call them winds of madness. They're so full of electricity that anybody's liable to blow a fuse.
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Capt. Denny Roark : Julia, you shouldn't be here, should you?
Julia Ashton Wister : Its quite all right. You see, I, I've come to say goodbye. I'm leaving you and John and Dickit, forever.