The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
Peter Finch: Jake
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Quotes
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Jake's Father : Do you like children?
Jake : Yes, of course I do. Yes.
Jake's Father : Have you ever actually known any?
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Jake's Father : He'll be an impossible husband.
Jake : Now, just a minute...
Jake's Father : No, I assure you. Well, I mean he's got no money, he's bone lazy, he drinks too much. He's quite useless.
Jo Armitage : He's going to be a very successful writer.
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Jo's Father : Do you realise what you're saddling yourself with?
Jake : Yes... yes. Yes
Jo's Father : A zoo, a children's zoo, and their keeper. Are you reconciled to keeping a zoo and its keeper?
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Jake : You're not exactly a model of faithfulness yourself, are you?
Jo Armitage : I was never unfaithful to anyone in my life, to anyone ever!
Jake : What a bloody hypocrite you are!
Jo Armitage : Did you stay the night?
Jake : I wish you'd shut up! I wish you'd die.
Jo Armitage : How should I die?
Jake : I dunno - leave me...
Jo Armitage : I could die here. What shall we do?
Jake : Nothing. I love you. I've always loved you.
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Jake : What are you sniggering for? Think it's funny I suppose because I tell the truth for once.
Jo Armitage : The truth?
Jake : That I'm capable of fancying somebody else. I'm a perfectly normal man and I'm capable of fancying somebody else.
