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[Why they don't have to worry about finding the 2 convicts]
Sheriff Max Muller: They'll probably kill each other before they go five miles.
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Law officier: How come they chained a white man to a black?
Sheriff Max Muller: The warden's got a sense of humor.
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Noah Cullen: Nigger! You call me that again, and I'll kill you!
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Noah Cullen: I ain't gettin' mad, Joker. I been mad all my natural life.
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John 'Joker' Jackson: Ya'll can't lynch me! I'm a white man!
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Noah Cullen: [after covering Joker's face with mud so it doesn't show in the moonlight] There, now just the meanness shines through.
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Noah Cullen: [to John] Go on, tell me all that big talk about Charlie Potatoes, when the chains off and nobody chasing you. Come on. You can't, can you? You can't because you're nothing. You're not even a man! You're a monkey on a stick. That cracker mob back there, they pull the string and you jump.
[John punches him]
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John 'Joker' Jackson: Cullen, I can't make it.
Noah Cullen: [Holding out his arm as if they are still chained together] Come on, man, you draggin' the chain.
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Noah Cullen: Pineville's south, I don't go south.
John 'Joker' Jackson: I used to know a girl in Pineville, if she's still there we get this broke now come on.
Noah Cullen: And then what? I'm a strange colored man in a white south town, how long you think before they pick me up?
John 'Joker' Jackson: Get off my back I ain't married to you. Now what do I care? Come on!
Noah Cullen: You married to me alright Joker. Now here's the ring
[holds up the chains]
Noah Cullen: but I ain't goin' south on no honeymoon now!
The Defiant Ones Quotes
Extended Reading
