The Postman (1994)
Massimo Troisi: Mario Ruoppolo
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Quotes
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Mario Ruoppolo : Poetry doesn't belong to those who write it; it belongs to those who need it.
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Mario Ruoppolo : Your smile spreads like a butterfly.
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Mario Ruoppolo : Your laugh is a sudden silvery wave.
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Mario Ruoppolo : If you make this much of a fuss about one poem, you're never going to win that Nobel Prize.
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Mario Ruoppolo : So what if we break our chains? What do we do then?
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Mario Ruoppolo : I'll only ask him to sign this book. That's all, so when I get paid I'll go to Naples and show all the girls that I'm a friend of Neruda, the poet of love.
Postmaster : The poet of the people.
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Priest : Find yourselves a decent person who isn't a communist. If Neruda doesn't believe in God, why should God believe in Neruda? What sort of witness would he be?
Mario Ruoppolo : God never said a communist can't be a witness at a wedding. I'm not getting married then.
Beatrice Russo : You're more interested in Neruda as a witness than me as your wife.
Mario Ruoppolo : My darling, Neruda's a Catholic. I know he's a Catholic.
Priest : In Russia, communists eat babies. How can he be Catholic?
Beatrice Russo : He doesn't look the type.
Priest : Neruda has a pretty wife. He's getting on and he has no children. How do you explain that?
Mario Ruoppolo : So according to you, Don Pablo ate his kids?
Priest : Who knows?
