Breakfast at Tiffany's Quotes

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Holly Golightly: I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does, they might as well be dead.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Paul Varjak: [second scene in the library] You're crazy. Holly Golightly: What? Do you think you own me? Paul Varjak: That's exactly what I think. Holly Golightly: I know. It's what everybody always thinks but everybody happens to be wrong. Paul Varj...

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Holly Golightly: It's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.

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Mag Wildwood: You know what's gonna happen to you? I am gonna march you over to the zoo and feed you to the yak.

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Holly Golightly: How do I look? Paul Varjak: Very good. I must say, I'm amazed.

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Holly Golightly: He's all right! Aren't you, cat? Poor cat! Poor slob! Poor slob without a name! The way I see it I haven't got the right to give him one. We don't belong to each other. We just took up one day by the river. I don't want to own anythi...

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[Holly whistles loudly to hail a cab] Paul Varjak: I never could do that. Holly Golightly: 's easy.

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Holly Golightly: [drunk] As Miss Golightly was saying before she was most rudely interrupted...

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Holly Golightly: But just look at the goodies she brought with her. Paul Varjak: He's all right, I suppose, if you like dark, handsome, rich-looking men with passionate natures and too many teeth.

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Holly Golightly: Ahh... Do I detect a look of disapproval in your eye? [spays perfume in Paul's direction] Holly Golightly: Tough beans buddy, 'cause that's the way it's gonna be.

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Paul Varjak: I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before, before.

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Paul Varjak: [giving his name at the police station] Paul Varjak. Varjak, V A R J A K. I'm a writer, W R I T E R.

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Paul Varjak: [Holly, while having a nightmare, begins crying] Why are you crying? Holly Golightly: [wakes up] If we're going to be friends let's get one thing straight right now. I hate snoops!

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Holly Golightly: Do you think she's talented, deeply and importantly talented? Paul Varjak: No. Amusingly and superficially talented, yes. But deeply and importantly, no.

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O.J. Berman: Hey, Fred-baby! Paul Varjak: No, no. It's Paul-baby.

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Holly Golightly: But I am mad about Jose. I honestly think I'd give up smoking if he asked me.

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Holly Golightly: I've got to do something about the way I look. I mean a girl just can't go to Sing Sing with a green face.

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Holly Golightly: Oh, golly gee damn!

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