He didn't want to belong to this day and age. The character in Lonely Are the Brave had that quality. Young people are not happy with what's going on - and they're right. Life gets more and more complex and convoluted. This is what attracted me to the story - the difficulty of being an individual today. It happens to be a point of view I love.Jack Burns: Maybe, but I'd like to put it off for as long as possible. Jerry Bondi: Maybe you'd be better off if they caught you. Prisoner: What kept you from getting all the way? Rev. And if you got the urge, you're halfway home. Hoskins: Well now, let's look at it this way. When I lost, I lost big! Prisoner: Are you a real preacher, Reverend? Rev. But believe me, it takes a lot more to tempt a preacher than it does you stumblebums in here. Hoskins: Well, I said I fought 'em, I didn't say I fought 'em off. Prisoner: Then how come you're in here, Reverend? Rev. Hoskins: Ah, the temptations of the flesh. Paul Bondi: Are you sure you didn't get kicked in the head? Jack Burns: What do you mean? Paul Bondi: You act like a man who thinks he's going to break out of jail. Paul Bondi: What happened to your face? Jack Burns: Oh, a bunch of guys I ran into down at the saloon gave it a new look. Jack Burns: Trouble's what I came here to fix up. How are people going to know who you are? Jack Burns: I don't need a card to figure out who I am. Desk sergeant: Look, cowboy, you can't go around with no identification. Desk sergeant: No draft card, no social security, no discharge? No insurance, no driver's license, no nothing? Jack Burns: No nothing. It rinses your insides out, sweetens you breath and tones up your skin.ĭesk sergeant: You mean to say you got no identification at all? Jack Burns: That's right. Jerry Bondi: Jack, what are you going to do? Jack Burns: Well, about every six months, I figure I owe myself a good drunk. Jack Burns: You can always keep something. And you either go by the rules or you lose. And it's got real borders and real fences, real laws and real trouble. The world that you and Paul live in doesn't exist. Jerry Bondi: Jack, I'm going to tell you something. Because he couldn't love you, not the way you are loved. A guy like that, he'd kill a woman like you. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. Jerry Bondi: Why? Jack Burns: 'Cause I'm a loner clear down deep to my guts. It's God's own blessing I didn't get you. Have you ever noticed how many fences there're getting to be? And the signs they got on them: no hunting, no hiking, no admission, no trespassing, private property, closed area, start moving, go away, get lost, drop dead! Do you know what I mean? Jerry Bondi: I've never heard such nonsense in my life. And the more fences there are, the more he hates them. Jack Burns: A westerner likes open country. You act like a man who thinks he's going to break out of jail. I haven't got enough spit left to wet a stick of gum.ĭialogue I don't need a card to figure out who I am. an invisible horse and an invisible cowboy. Believe you me, if it didn't take men to make babies I wouldn't have anything to do with any of you!.Isn't that odd? I heard a horse and I knew it was your horse. Temper like that and one of these days you'll find yourself riding through town with your belly to the sun, your best suit on and no place to go but hell. Any of you boys interfere, I'll use both arms. This fellow wants action, I'm glad to accommodate him, do it with one arm behind my back.Opening line, to his horse as he watches jet contrails in the sky.
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