The Motorcycle Diaries Movie Quotes
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
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How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew?
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Miner's Wife
Are you two looking for work?
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
No, we aren't looking for work.
Miner's Wife
No?... Then why are you traveling?
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
We travel just to travel.
Miner's Wife
Bless you... Blessed be your travels.
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Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
Wandering around our America has changed me more than I thought. I am not me any more. At least I'm not the same me I was.
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Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
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What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two; melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land.
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Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
Even though we are too insignificant to be spokesmen for such a noble cause, we believe, and this journey has only confirmed this belief, that the division of American into unstable and illusory nations is a complete fiction. We are one single mestizo race from Mexico to the Magellan Straits. And so, in an attempt to free ourselves from narrow minded provincialism, I propose a toast to Peru and to a United America.
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Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
I want to be useful, somehow.
Silvia (Peru)
You're wasting your time.
Silvia (Peru)
Life is pain.
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
Yeah, it's pretty screwed up. You gotta fight for every breath and tell death to go to hell.
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Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
Me, I'm not the same me, at least not the same spiritual me.
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Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
[voice over]
What we had in common - our restlessness, our impassioned spirits, and a love for the open road.
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Title Card
[Opening] "This isn't a tale about heroic feats. It's about two lives running parallel for a while, with common aspirations and similar dreams." Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, 1952
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Ernesto Guevara Lynch (Argentina)
Son, tough times are ahead. To tell the truth, I've always dreamt of doing something like this. I confess that if I were a few years younger, I'd climb on that motorcycle with you.
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
Imagine I'm doing it for both of us.
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Silvia (Peru)
What is wrong with you?
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
I was born with bad lungs.
Silvia (Peru)
What a shame!
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
No, is not that bad. Thanks to that i skipped the military service, I didn't have to shine anyone boots.
Silvia (Peru)
Is that why you became a doctor? Because you are sick?
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
Is possible.The first word i learned was injection. I want to be useful in some way.
Silvia (Peru)
You are wasting your time.
Silvia (Peru)
This life is hell.
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
Yes, it's really fucked up, but we have to fight for every breath and tell Death to fuck off.
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Alberto Granado
It is rumored that Chilean girls are the most daring on the continent.
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
Rumors have no scientific value, Dr. Granado. Time to do some research.
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Title Card
In 1960 Granado was invited to live and work in Cuba. The invitation came from his old friend Fuser, now "Comandante" Ernesto Che Guevara, one of the most prominent and inspiring leaders of the Cuban Revolution. Che went on to fight for his ideals in the Congo and Bolivia where he was captured, and with the support of the CIA, murdered in October, 1967.
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Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
Mother.
Mother Sister Alberto
Yes?
Alberto Granado
We want to eat.
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
We deserve to eat like everyone else.
Mother Sister Alberto
Yes, but you didn't go to mass.
Mother Sister Alberto
Then, how do you expect to feed the body if you didn't feed the soul first?
Alberto Granado
Er, denying food is not very Christian-like.
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
Yes, I doubt Jesus would act like this.
Mother Sister Alberto
In this house, we have a set of rules that have to be followed.
Alberto Granado
Neither did I. I think that if I find it I would eat it.
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Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
"On the boat I heard the moist slap of bare feet and foresaw faces dark with hunger. My heart was a pendulum between her and the street. I don't know what strength broke me free from her eyes, loose from her arms. She remained clouded by tears, her anguish hidden by the rain."
Alberto Granado
Is that Lorca?
Alberto Granado
Neruda?
Alberto Granado
Who?
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
I don't remember.
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Chichina Ferreyra
I'd like for you to stay like this: silent. I want to look at you; I won't see you for a long time. I will wait for you, but don't take forever.
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
Define "forever".
Chichina Ferreyra
Thin ice, mister!
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Alberto Granado
I think there's a young lady interested in dancing with you.
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
I should ask her, right?
Alberto Granado
The bird of youth flies away and doesn't come back, man. Fly, man, fly!
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Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
Don't your parents realize that the deeper you bury the diamonds, the more determined the pirate is to take them?
Chichina Ferreyra
Believe me, this diamond wouldn't mind being taken.
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Alberto Granado
Che.
Alberto Granado
It's not too late to come work with me in Cabo Blanco. You could come back after you graduate. I'll wait for you.
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
I don't know. I just don't know. You know, Mial, all this time we spent on the road, something happened. Something I'll have to think about for a long time. So much injustice.
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Alberto Granado
So, when's the revolution coming?
Argentine
Here? In about a century.
Alberto Granado
We gotta learn from the Russians.
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Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
Are you talking to the motorcycle again?
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Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
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The goal: to explore a continent we had only known in books.
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Alberto Granado
We land on the Guajira Peninsula. The tip of a great continent. Bellies full of wine and two tropical beauties, hopefully sisters.
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
That's good beer, huh?
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Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
All you want is to get laid in every country in South America.
Alberto Granado
In every town too, if we're lucky. Adds a little spice.
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Alberto Granado
So with Chichina - nothing? Even after you gave her a pure-bred German Shepard, nothing? At least tell me you saw one tit. One little tit. Ah, you saw her titties then. Alright, my man!
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Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
Listen, when we're old and tired of traveling, we should come back and set up a clinic on this lake.
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Chipi Chipi Band Singer (Chile)
[singing]
My love, I'm gonna buy a little plane to fly during our sweet honeymoon, my love. My love, I'm gonna buy a little train to take a ride during our sweet honeymoon. Listen to his voice as he walks on, he sings us the Chipi Chipi to dance along! Chipi Chipi! Hey! Chipi Chipi! Hey! Learn to dance the rhythm of the Chipi Chipi! Chipi Chipi! Hey! Chipi Chipi! Hey!
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Jazmin, Chilean Sister
Are you two Argentinian?
Alberto Granado
How'd you know?
Jazmin, Chilean Sister
Well, because of your accent, because Argentinians always say "che".
Alberto Granado
Had you noticed, Che?
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
Not at all, Che.
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Alberto Granado
Fuser, you still haven't asked about the research I did on our Chilean sisters.
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
You can't imagine how depressed I am that you're the sexual ambassador of Argentina!
Alberto Granado
It's true.
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Truck Driver (Chile)
There she is, Valparaíso.
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
"I love Valparaíso, all you encompass, all you radiate, lover of the ocean, far from - "
Alberto Granado
Federico García Lorca.
Truck Driver (Chile)
Neruda!
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Miner (Chile)
We didn't have much, just some tough, dry land.
Miner's Wife
It belonged to his grandpa.
Miner (Chile)
It was ours. Until a land speculator forced us off.
Miner's Wife
That's what they call progress.
Miner (Chile)
So we had to leave our son with family and hit the road, looking for work, trying to escape from the police who wanted to put us in jail.
Alberto Granado
Why?
Miner's Wife
Because we are communists.
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Alberto Granado
Fuser, here's my idea; I'll marry an Inca descendant. We'll start an indigenous party under these conditions: we'd encourage the people to vote, reactivate Tupac Amaru's revolution, the Indo-American revolution, Fuser. How's that sound?
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
A revolution without guns? It would never work.
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Dr. Hugo Pesce (Peru)
This is Mariátegui's book. And you must also read César Vallejo.
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Dr. Hugo Pesce (Peru)
Mariátegui speaks of the revolutionary potential of the natives and farm workers of Latin America. He says the problem of the Indian is the problem of the land and that the revolution should not be an imitation. It should be original and indigenous.
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Luz (Peru)
You know a little while ago there was a bufeo out there.
Alberto Granado
Bufeo?
Luz (Peru)
They're river dolphins but we call them bufeos. Have you ever seen one?
Alberto Granado
Never. I've heard of them, but I've never seen one.
Luz (Peru)
I'm going to tell you a secret.
Alberto Granado
Okay.
Luz (Peru)
The bufeo's sex organs are like that of a woman's and the Indians use them to - comfort themselves. But there's a little problem. As soon as they're done, they have to kill the animal because they suffer contractions that won't let them loose.
[laughs]
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Alberto Granado
Ernesto, This is Luz...
Luz (Peru)
Hola!
Alberto Granado
Which means "light". "Electrifying light that dazzles my dreams. Get ready, you've no clue what's coming to you."
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
Neruda?
Alberto Granado
Granado!
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Chichina Ferreyra
If you stayed we could do many things, Ernesto, but only if you stayed.
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Ernesto Guevara de la Serna
Sir, I wonder, which of these walls is Incan?
Don Néstor, Cuzco Guide
This one here is Incan and that one is Spanish. As a joke we say this wall was made by the Inca and that wall was made by the Inca-pables. That's what we call the Spanish.
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