Little Murders (1971)

Marcia Rodd: Patsy Newquist

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• Patsy Newquist : I want to be married to a big, strong, vital, virile, self-assured man... that I can protect and take care of.

• Patsy Newquist : Now, I'm not saying that I'm any better or stronger than you are. It's just, we... you and I have different temperaments. And my temperament is better and stronger than yours!

• Patsy Newquist : Kissing you is like kissing white bread!

• Patsy Newquist : Alfred, you're the first man I've ever gone to bed with where I didn't feel he was a lot more likely to get pregnant than I was!

• Alfred Chamberlain : I trust you.

  Patsy Newquist : Oh, Alfred, do you really?

  Alfred Chamberlain : I nearly trust you.

  Patsy Newquist : Nearly?

  Alfred Chamberlain : I nearly do. I really nearly do.

  Patsy Newquist : [ecstatically]  Oh, Alfred!

• Patsy Newquist : Honey, I don't want to hurt you. I want to change you.

• Patsy Newquist : Are you really so down on people, or are you just being fashionable?

• Patsy Newquist : It isn't just pain you don't feel, you don't feel pleasure!

  Alfred Chamberlain : I do feel pleasure.

  Patsy Newquist : About what?

  Alfred Chamberlain : A lot of things.

  Patsy Newquist : Name one!

  Alfred Chamberlain : My work.

  Patsy Newquist : Oh, name another.

  Alfred Chamberlain : Sleeping.

  Patsy Newquist : Work and sleeping. Oh, that's just great! What about sex?

  Alfred Chamberlain : Makes you sleep better.

• Patsy Newquist : And you're going to feel starting right now, is that right? I don't want a nod, I want an answer. Say, "yes, Patsy."

  Alfred Chamberlain : Yes, Patsy.

  Patsy Newquist : Yes, Patsy what?

  Alfred Chamberlain : Yes, Patsy, I'm going to feel.

  Patsy Newquist : Starting when?

  Alfred Chamberlain : Starting as soon as I can manage it.

  Patsy Newquist : Starting when?

  Alfred Chamberlain : Starting now.

  Patsy Newquist : And what's your first feeling?

  Alfred Chamberlain : Er, it's sort of distant.