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Fay Grim: Why is it, when someone starts talking about civilization, I hear the sound of machine guns?
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Fay Grim: You mean, like a date?
Angus James: I'm afraid so.
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Father Lang: Fay? You OK?
Fay Grim: I'm afraid.
Father Lang: Why? Has something happened?
Fay Grim: I'm afraid for my son... He's fourteen.
Father Lang: Boys have been known to survive that, Fay.
Fay Grim: I'm afraid he'll grow up to be... well, like his father.
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Agent Fulbright: Carl, go take a walk in the rain.
Fay Grim: Bye, Carl.
Agent Fulbright: Leave him alone.
Fay Grim: He likes me.
Agent Fulbright: That's his problem.
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Agent Fulbright: When you disembark at Paris, go directly to the Ladies Room.
Carl Fogg: Before you clear Customs.
Agent Fulbright: It will be on your left as you enter the Terminal. The operative will establish contact.
Fay Grim: How?
Agent Fulbright: Impossible to say.
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Agent Fulbright: If the present government collapses, there'll be NO new government. Only chaos. Unless...
Andre: Unless what?
Agent Fulbright: We gotta organize the rebels, get somebody now - before the shit hits the fan - who's, uh, reasonable.
Andre: And by reasonable, you mean someone who will do whatever the Americans want him to do.
Agent Fulbright: Yeah. Well, maybe. Why not?
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Henry Fool: You see? They have to bludgeon a man into obscurity before they'll acknowledge his genius.
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Henry Fool: If anything happens to Fay, Jallal, I'll torture your wives, your family, your children and their children. There'll be a disease upon this Earth with your name on it. The only thing anyone will inherit from Jallal Said Khan is a long lifetime of intolerable pain. Sorry. That's just the kinda guy I am.
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