The Razor's Edge (1946)

Tyrone Power: Larry Darrell

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• Larry Darrell : If I ever acquire wisdom, I suppose I'll be wise enough to know what to do with it.

• Kosti : You're a rum one, Larry. But what about all the answers to those profound questions you've been asking yourself? Don't you know, people have been asking those same questions for thousands of years?

  Larry Darrell : Yes, but doesn't the fact that people *have* been asking those same questions for thousands of years only go to prove that they can't help asking?

  Kosti : Very good, very good. You're not altogether stupid. As a matter of fact, you sound like a very religious man who doesn't believe in God.

  Larry Darrell : I'm not sure that I believe in anything.

• Larry Darrell : We could go down to Capri for our honeymoon and then in the fall we could go to Greece. Remember how we used to talk about traveling all over the world together?

  Isabel Bradley : Of course, I want to travel. But, not like that. Cheap restaurants. Third rate hotels. Besides, I want to have babies, Larry.

  Larry Darrell : Alright, darling, we'll take them along with us.

  Isabel Bradley : Oh, Larry, you're so impractical. You don't know what you are asking me to do. I'm young. I want to have fun. Do all the things people do. We wouldn't have a friend in the world.

  Larry Darrell : Isabel, stop exaggerating. We'll do everything you want to do and we'll do it together.

  Isabel Bradley : Oh, listen, darling, if you hadn't a cent to your name and got a job that brought you 3000 a year, I'd marry you without a minute's hesitation. I'd cook for you. I'd make beds. I wouldn't care what I wore. I'd think it was fun; because, I'd felt it was only a question of time until you'd make good. But, this means living like this all our lives! With nothing to look forward to! It's asking too much! Oh Larry, you've had your fling now. For your own sake, I beg of you to come home with us.

  Larry Darrell : I wouldn't make you happy if I did. You see, what you forget is that I want to learn as passionately as, well, as Gray, for example, wants to make a lot of money! I came over here because I was restless and because my mind was muddled. I came looking for the answers to a lot of questions. Some of them I've found. Others, I may never find. But, I can't stop now. Oh, I know its sounds vague and trivial compared with, well, compared with everything that's happening at home today. And I know I'm being very difficult. But, I can't stop now, Isabel. I just can't.

  Isabel Bradley : But, what would happen to America if everyone did as your doing?

  Larry Darrell : The answer to that is that everyone doesn't feel as I do. Fortunately, for themselves, most people are just content to follow the normal course and take things as they are. Oh, I wish I could too. But, I know if I tried I'd just make a mess of your life and mine too.

  Isabel Bradley : But, what's this all going to lead to?

  Larry Darrell : I don't know. It may be that when I'm through, I will have found something to give that people will be glad to take. It's just a chance. But, even if I fail, I shan't be any worse off than a fellow who's gone into business and hasn't made a go of it.

  Isabel Bradley : Then, there's nothing more to be said.

• Isabel Bradley : Larry, how can you bear to sit here in a backwash, when America is living through the most glorious adventure the world has ever known? You've been away a year now, a whole year out of your life. You just can't go on loafing for ever! Or, can you?

  Larry Darrell : It's possible.

• Larry Darrell : The dead looks so terribly dead when they're dead.

• Larry Darrell : The only thing that makes me unhappy is making you unhappy. I don't think I'll ever find peace until I make up my mind about things. It's so difficult to put into words. The minute you try, you feel embarrassed. You say to yourself, who am I to bother my head about this, that or the other. Wouldn't it be better just to follow the beaten path and let what's coming to you, come? And then I think, of a guy I knew, a minute before he was full of life and fun, and then... he was dead. I've seen many men die; but, this one was different. It was the last day of the war, almost the last moment. He could have saved himself, but, he didn't. He saved me, and, died. So, he's gone and I'm here, alive. Why? It's all so meaningless! You can't help but ask what life is all about. Whether there's any sense to it or whether it's just a stupid blunder!