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Quotes
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Tomas : You can sleep. Sleep in my arms. Like a baby bird. Like a broom among brooms... in a broom closet. Like a tiny parrot. Like a whistle. Like a little song. A song sung by a forest... within a forest... a thousand years ago.
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[first lines]
First Title Card : In Prague, in 1968, there lived a young doctor named Tomas...
Tomas : Take off your clothes.
[line recurs several times during film]
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Tomas : Some people never change.Some people are always scoundrels.
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Tereza : [referring to her dog] Karenin prefers Mephisto to dogs. She thinks other dogs are silly.
Tomas : [Mephisto snorts and Tomas inhales the aroma of the food] Ha-ha.
Pavel : Do you know why I love Mephisto? Because he's very bright, but, at the same time,
[gesturing for emphasis]
Pavel : he doesn't know anything! After all, he doesn't know that life is impossible here now. Nothing left here. The church is gone.
[shrugging]
Pavel : No place to drink beer now.
[he drinks his bottle of beer very quickly]
Pavel : It's good... very good.
[slurping]
Pavel : If you ever change your mind, it won't be easy to leave.