Manhattan

Manhattan (1979)

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Isaac Davis: It's an interesting group of people, your friends are.
Mary Wilke: I know.
Isaac Davis: Like the cast of a Fellini movie.

Party Guest: I finally had an orgasm, and my doctor said it was the wrong kind.
Isaac Davis: You had the wrong kind? I've never had the wrong kind, ever. My worst one was right on the money.

Mary Wilke: Facts?I got a million facts at my fingertips.
Isaac Davis: That's right, and they don't mean a thing, right? Because nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind. Everything really valuable has to enter you through a different opening, if you'll forgive the disgusting imagery.

Isaac Davis: I think people should mate for life, like pigeons or Catholics.

Jeremiah: I'm going to a synposium on semantics.

Yale: You know we have to stop seeing each other, don't you.
Mary Wilke: Oh, yeah. Right. Right. I understand. I could tell by the sound of your voice on the phone. Very authoritative, y'know. Like the pope, or the computer in 2001.

Isaac Davis: This is shaping up like a Noel Coward play. You know, somebody should go out and make some martinis.

Tracy: Let's fool around. Let's do it some strange way that you've always wanted to, but nobody would do with you.

Isaac Davis: Don't stare at me with those big eyes. Geez, you look like one of those barefoot kids from Boliva who needs foster parents.

Isaac Davis: It's brown water! I'm paying seven-hundred dollars a month, I got rats with bongos and a, and a frog and I got brown water here.

Isaac Davis: You know what you are? You're God's answer to Job, y'know? You would have ended all argument between them. I mean, He would have pointed to you and said, y'know, "I do a lot of terrible things, but I can still make one of these." You know? And then Job would have said, "Eh. Yeah, well, you win."

Isaac Davis: Has anybody read that Nazis are gonna march in New Jersey? Y'know, I read this in the newspaper. We should go down there, get some guys together, y'know, get some bricks and baseball bats and really explain things to them.
Party Guest: There is this devastating satirical piece on that on the Op Ed page of the Times, it is devastating.
Isaac Davis: Well, a satirical piece in the Times is one thing, but bricks and baseball bats really gets right to the point.

Isaac Davis: They probably sit around on the floor with wine and cheese, and mispronounce allegorical and didacticism.

Isaac Davis: No, I didn't read the piece on China's faceless masses, I was, I was checking out the lingerie ads.

Pizzeria Waiter: Who ordered the green peppers? Was that you? Must've been. Anchovies, sausage, mushrooms, garlic and green peppers.
Isaac Davis: Forgot the coconut.

Yale: It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.

Willie Davis: Why can't we have frankfurters?
Isaac Davis: Because, this is the Russian Tea Room.

Isaac Davis: Years ago I wrote this short story about my Mother called "The Castrating Zionist"

Party Guest: Oh, but really biting satire is always better than physical force.
Isaac Davis: No, physical force is always better with Nazis.

Isaac Davis: When it comes to relationships with women, I'm the winner of the August Strindberg Award.

Visible crew/equipment: If you look closely, you can see the camera and crew reflected in the cars passing while the camera follows Isaac running down the street.

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