Journey to Italy (1954)
George Sanders: Alex Joyce
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Quotes
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Alex Joyce : What noisy people! I've never seen noise and boredom go so well together.
Katherine Joyce : Oh I don't know, Uncle Homer lived here for 40 years without getting bored.
Alex Joyce : Uncle Homer was not a normal person.
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Katherine Joyce : He wrote some beautiful verses.
Alex Joyce : I'll buy his books.
Katherine Joyce : He never published them. You think a young poet can find a publisher?
Alex Joyce : So how do you know them?
Katherine Joyce : He would read to me, and I copied many of them down. "Temple of the spirit. No longer bodies, but pure, ascetic images, compare to which thought itself becomes leaden, opaque, heavy." He wrote those verses here in Italy, during the war.
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[last lines]
Katherine Joyce : Tell me. I want to hear you say it.
Alex Joyce : Alright, I love you.
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Alex Joyce : I can't stand this damn country anymore. The idleness is toxic.
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Katherine Joyce : What did Charles's cough tell you?
Alex Joyce : That he was a fool.
Katherine Joyce : He was not a fool. He was a poet.
Alex Joyce : What's the difference?
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Katherine Joyce : I wanted you to take a rest. It didn't occur to me that it'd be so boring for you to be alone with me.
Alex Joyce : What's that got to do with it? I'm just bored because I've got nothing to do.
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Katherine Joyce : This is the first time that we've been really alone ever since we married.
Alex Joyce : Yes, I suppose it is.
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Alex Joyce : Are you sure you know when I'm happy?
Katherine Joyce : No, ever since we left on this trip I'm not so sure. I realised for the first time that we... we're like strangers.
Alex Joyce : That's right. After eight years of marriage, it seems like we don't know anything about each other.
Katherine Joyce : At home everything seemed so perfect, but now that we're away, alone...
Alex Joyce : Yes, it's a strange discovery to make.
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Alex Joyce : We English aren't allowed to enjoy long stays abroad.
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Alex Joyce : Where did we meet him?
Katherine Joyce : At the Smith's house.
Alex Joyce : Was he an attorney?
Katherine Joyce : No. No. A poet. He was slender, blond, tall, so delicate and romantic.
