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FOLLOWING ARE FICTIONAL FAREWELLS
E.T.
"I'll be right here." (after touching Elliot's forehead
with his fingertip)
Movie: E.T., The Extraterrestrial, 1982
Blaine, Richard "Rick" (actor -
Humphrey Bogart)
"Isla, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much
to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to
a hill of beans in this crazy world. Some day you'll understand
that. Now, now. Here's looking at you kid."
Movie: Casablanca, 1942 |
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Butler,
Rhett (actor - Clark Gable)
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!" - movie
"My dear, I don't give a damn!" - book
Movie: Gone With the Wind, 1939
Dubois, Blanche
"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." (as
she is taken off to an institution)
Drama: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, 1947
"Where are you guys going?" Wait a minute? I'll remember this!
I'll remember everyone of ya! I'll be back; don't you forget that. I'll
be back."
Movie: On the Waterfront, 1954
Helmer, Nora
"Now that life together between us two could become a marriage.
Goodbye."
Play: A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, 1879
Joad, Tom (actor - Henry Fonda)
"I'll be ever'where--wherever you look. Wherever
they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever they's
a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I'll be
in the way guys yell when they're mad an'--I'll be in the way kids laugh
when they're hungry an' they know supper's ready. An' when our folks
eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they build--why, I'll
be there. See?" - book
Well, maybe it's like Casy says. A fella ain't
got a soul of his own, just a little piece of a big soul - the one big
soul that belongs to ever'body. Then...then, it don't matter. I'll be
all around in the dark. I'll be ever' where - wherever you can look.
Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever
there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys
yell when they're mad - I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry
an' they know supper's ready. An' when the people are eatin' the stuff
they raise, and livin' in the houses they build - I'll be there, too.
- movie
Novel: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck,
1939
Movie: The Grapes of Wrath, 1940
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