Faunia Farley: Action is the enemy of thought.
Faunia Farley: You're a crow... who doesn't know how to be a crow.
Nathan Zuckerman: I'm writing a book... it's called 'The Human Stain'.
Ernestine: People are just getting dumber, but more opinionated.
Coleman Silk: Granted, she's not my first love. Granted, she's not my great love. But she is sure as hell my last love. Doesn't that count for something?
Mrs. Silk: You need to be proud of your race.

Young Coleman Silk: What about me? What about just being proud of being me? It's my life.
Young Coleman Silk: So, that's an... What is it? Swedish?

Steena Paulsson: Close, it's Danish and Icelandic.
Mrs. Silk: Coleman, you think like a prisoner. You're white as snow and you think like a slave.
Mrs. Silk: Funny, I never thought of you as black or white. Golden, you were my golden child.
Nathan Zuckerman: [voiceover] 1998 was the summer of sanctimony. After the fall of Communism and before the horrors of terrorism, there was a brief interlude when the nation was preoccupied by cock sucking.
Young Coleman Silk: Dance For Me.
Coleman Silk: You can't make a college without breaking egg heads, and uh, I couldn't write a book called Spooks that didn't sound like the raving of a lunatic.
Psychologist: Did you ever kill anyone when you were in Vietnam, Mr. Farley?

Lester Farley: Did I kill anyone?

Psychologist: Um hmm.

Lester Farley: Isn't that what I was supposed to do when I went to fuckin' Vietnam, fuckin' kill gooks? They said everything goes, so everything went.
Faunia Farley: You can't go out there, he's fuckin' crazy.

Coleman Silk: Yeah, so am I.

[picks up a baseball bat]
Nelson Primus: How do you know she doesn't want to use you to make up for all that she's lost? Do I represent you in a paternity suit, Coleman? "Give up the girl, Achilles." I took your intro to European lit umpteen years ago as an undergrad. Give her up, and your troubles go away.
Young Coleman Silk: [giving eulogy] Cowards die many times before their death; the valiant only taste death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear; seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.
Nathan Zuckerman: Coleman, every mistake a man can make usually has a sexual accelerator. The things that restore you can also destroy you.
Faunia Farley: [dancing provocatively] You're way too young for me. I need a man much older than you. At least 100. Know anyone in a wheelchair?
Steena Paulsson: I want to spend my life with you.

Young Coleman Silk: What are you doing Sunday?
Herb Keble: Coleman Silk and his wife Iris were betray by the moral stupidity of a censorious and coercive community. And I was a part of that community. We all were.
Mrs. Silk: Funny I never thought of you as black or white. Gold. You were my golden child.
Mrs. Silk: Coleman, you think like a prisoner. You're white as snow, and you think like a slave.
[last lines]

Lester Farley: You know my secret place. You know everything now, don't you Mr. Zuckerman? But you won't tell, will you?

Nathan Zuckerman: [slowly turns to walk away]

Lester Farley: Hey, the book. Send me one.

Nathan Zuckerman: It's in the mail.

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The Human Stain short comments

Samara 2022-03-21 09:03:17

She smokes a cigarette, Luo Tuo's appearance is sympathetic, she dances, and her elegant appearance is moving.
Evangeline 2022-03-25 09:01:22

I don't like Anthony Hopkins's acting style. As an individual, he seems to enjoy appearing as a wise man in the movie. Just like some old actors in China also have their own screen image, Nicole Kidman seems to rarely accept the real A movie that fits her temperament. The movie itself is not interesting. Hollywood mass-produces such movies. The frame of this kind of movie mainly allows the audience to obtain some solemn and compassionate emotional experience. At the same time, it is also hypocritical, and it is always the same emotional experience.