Sling Blade Movie Quotes
Karl
I like them French fried potaters.
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Karl
I don't reckon you have to go with women to be a good daddy to a boy. You been real square-dealin' with me. The Bible says two men ought not lay together. But I don't reckon the Good Lord would send anybody like you to Hades. That Frank, he lives inside of his own heart. That's an awful big place to live in. You take good care of that boy.
[walks off]
Vaughan Cunningham
I will. Karl?
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Doyle
What'cha doin' with that lawn mower blade Karl?
Karl
I aim to kill you with it.
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Vaughan Cunningham
You always seem to be deep in thought. Tell me, what are you thinking right now?
Karl
I was thinkin', I'm gonna take me some of these taters home with me.
Vaughan Cunningham
How about before that?
Karl
Well, let me think... I was thinkin' I could use me another couple cans'o that potted meat if ya got any extree.
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Karl
Just 'cause I ain't gonna be around no more, maybe, don't mean that I don't care for you.
Frank
I care 'bout you too, but you'll be around. Don't say that.
Karl
Doesn't matter where I was to be. We'll always be friends. You and me made friends right off the bat. Don't nobody ever change that. I kindly want to put my arm around you, then I'm gonna get up out of here and leave.
[Puts his arm around Frank]
Karl
I love you, boy.
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Karl
I reckon what yousa wantin' to know is why I'm in here. Reckon the reason I'm in here is cause I've killed somebody, mhm. But I reckon what yousa wantin' to know is how come mea killed somebody, so I'll start at the front and tell ye, mhm... I lived out back of my mother and father's place mosta my life in a little old shed that my daddy had built fur me, mhm. They didn't too much want me up there in the house with the rest of 'em, mhm. So mustley I just sat around out there in the shed and looked at the ground, mhm. I didn't have no floor out there, but I had me a hole dug out to lay down in. Quilt or two tu put down there, mhm. My father was a hard workin' man most of his life. Not that I can say the same for myself. I mostly just sat around out there in the shed, tinkerin' with a lawn mower or two. Went to school off and on from time to time, but the children out there, very cruel to me, made quite a bit a sport of me, make fun of me quite a bit. So mostly, I just sat around out there. In the shed. My daddy worked down there at the saw mill, the plainer mill, for an old man named Dixon. Old man Dixon was very cruel feller. Didn't treat his employees very well, didn't pay 'em too much a wage, didn't pay my daddy too much a wage. Just barely enough to get by on, I reckon, mhm. But I reckon he got by alright. Hmm. I used to come out, one or the other of 'em. Usually my mother, feed me pretty regular, mhm. I know he made enough where I could have mustard and biscuits three or four times a week. Mhm. But old man Dixon, he had a boy. His name was Jesse Dixon. Jesse was really more cruel than his daddy was. He used to make quite a bit a sport with me, when i was down there at the school house. he used to take advantage of little girls there in the neighborhood an' all. He used to say that my mother was a very pretty woman. He said that quite a bit from time to time when I'd be down there at the school house. Well... I reckon you want me tu get on with it and tell you what happened, so I reckon I'll tell ye. I was sittin' out there in the shed one evening, not doin' too much of nothin', just starrin' at the wall, waitin' on my mother to come out and give me my Bible lesson. Mhm. Well, I heard a commotion up there in the house. Mhm. So I run up on the screened-in porch to see what was a-goin' on. I looked in the window there and saw my mother layin' on the floor without any clothes on, hmm. Mhm-hmm. I seen Jesse Dixon layin' on top of her, hmm. He was havin' his way with her. Hmm. Well, I just seen red. I picked up a Kaiser Blade that was sittin' there by the screen door. Some folks call it a Sling Blade, I call it a Kaiser Blade. It's kindly a wood handle, kind of like an axe handle. With a long blade on it shaped kinda like a bananer. Mhm. Sharp on one edge, and dull on the other. Mhm. It's what the highway boys use to cut down weeds and whatnot. Well, I went in there, in the house, and I hit Jesse Dixon upside the head with it, knocked him off my mother, mhm. I reckon that didn't quite satisfy me. So I hit him again with it in the neck, the sharp edge, and just plumb near cut his head off, killed him. My mother she jumped up and started hollerin' "What'd you kill Jesse fur? What'd you kill Jesse fur?" Well... come to find out I don't think my mother minded what Jesse was a-doin' to her. I reckon that made me madder that what Jesse'd made me. So I take the Kaiser Blade, some folks call it a Sling Blade, I call it a Kaiser Blade, and I hit my mother upside the head with it. Killed her.
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Frank
You ever have any brothers or sisters growing up?
Karl Childers
I had one there for a little while. But, uh, it didn't get old enough for me to play with it.
Frank
Why not? It die?
Karl Childers
Yes, Sir.
Frank
Why?
Karl Childers
It got born too early. My mother and father made it come out too early some how or other.
Frank
So it died when it came out?
Karl Childers
My daddy came out to the shed and got me. He said, "Here, take this and throw it away", and he handed me a towel with something or another in it. Well I started for that barrel and I opened up the towel 'cause there was a noise. Something a-moving around in there. The towel was all bloody-like all around it there. It was a lil' ol' baby not no bigger than a squirrel.
Frank
A girl or a boy?
Karl Childers
It was a little ol' boy.
Frank
You threw it in the trash barrel?
Karl Childers
Well that didn't seem right to me, so I went in the shed and got me a shoe box and emptied out all the washers and nuts and screws and whatnot that were in it and I takened the little fellar and put him inside the box and buried him right there in a corner of the yard. That seemed more proper to me, I reckon.
Frank
Was it still alive when you buried it?
Karl Childers
I heared it a-cryin' through that box.
Frank
That don't seem right. Seems like you would have kept him and taken care of him if he was your brother.
Karl Childers
I wasn't but 6 or 8. I don't reckon I knew what to do. I didn't know how to care for no baby. My mother and father didn't want him and they learned me to do what they told me. These days I reckon it's better to give him back to the Good Lord anyhow.
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Karl
There were these two fellars standin' on a bridge, a-goin' to the bathroom. One fellar said, "The water's cold" and the other fellar said, "The water's deep". I believe one fella come from Arkansas. Get it?
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Karl's Father
I told you I ain't got no boy, now why don't you get on outta here and let me be. You ain't no kin to me.
Karl
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I learned to read some. I read the Bible quite a bit. I can't understand all of it, but I reckon I understand a good deal of it. Them stories you and Mama told me ain't in there. You ought not done that to your boy. I studied on killing you. Studied on it quite a bit. But I reckon there ain't no need for it if all you're gonna do is sit there in that chair. You'll be dead soon enough and the world 'll be shut of ya. You ought not killed my little brother, he should've had a chance to grow up. He woulda had fun some time.
[Exits]
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Bill Cox
[lawnmower won't start]
Karl, see if you can figure out what's wrong with this. It won't crank up and everything seems to be put together right.
Karl
It ain't got no gas in it.
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Karl
I don't think anything bad ought to happen to children. I think the bad stuff should be saved up for the people whose grown up. That's the way I see it.
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Charles Bushman
A Mercury is a good car. That's the car I was driving that day. I've had a lot of cars. Different kinds. Lot's of different kinds of cars. She was standing - this girl - on the side of the street where there was this chicken stand, wasn't the Colonel but it was a chicken stand nonetheless. I pulled the Mercury up right along side her and rolled down the window, see, by electric power. She had on a leather skirt and had a lot of hair on her arms. I like that a lot. That means a big bush. I like a big bush. She says, "Are you dating?" You know, so I said, "Sure". She gets in and we pull off to a remote location that was comfortable for both she and I. She says, "How much do you wanna spend?", I said, "Whatever it will take to see that bush of yours because I know it's a big one". She says, "Twenty five dollars". That's not chicken feed to a working man so I produce the $25, she puts it in her shoe, pulls up her skirt and there before me lay this thin, crooked, uncircumcised penis.
[Scoffs]
Charles Bushman
You can imagine how bad I wanted my $25 back, huh?
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Marsha Dwiggins
Will you ever kill anyone again, Karl?
Karl
I don't reckon I got no reason to kill nobody. Mmm.
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Doyle
Now get the fuck out now before I get too mad to turn back!
Terence
What about our instruments?
Doyle
Come here, you little prick. Come here, you little fucking prick!
[Wheels him right into the door]
Doyle
Get out! All y'all, get the fuck out! Come on, you motherfuckers!
[Nobody moves]
Doyle
Get the fuck out! Randy, you tuning son of a bitch, go fucking practice, Randy!
[Noody moves]
Doyle
Come on, Morris, you fucking genius, get the fuck up and get the fuck out of here, Goddammit!
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Karl
Reckon you make me some biscuits.
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Karl
Some folks call it a sling blade, I call it a Kaiser blade.
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Charles Bushman
Karl, who'd you kill? Was it the boy?
Karl
Don't you say another word about that boy. Fact'o business, don't you say another word to me. I ain't listening to you no more.
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Frank
Ever think of killing yourself on purpose like my daddy done?
Karl
I studied about it. The Bible says you ought not to. It says if you do that, you go off to Hades. Some folks call it Hell, I call it Hades.
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Doyle
[to Vaughan and Karl]
Hey! I said get out of my house! That goes for cocksuckers and retards! Now get up off your asses'n go! Go on!
Linda
This is not your house, Doyle. This is my house and I decide who goes and who stays. You got a house, why don't you get some of your girlfriends and go home to it?
Doyle
You know better than to talk to me like that when I'm hurtin', Linda. Don't make me knock the piss outta you.
Vaughan Cunningham
Don't you touch her.
Doyle
That's funny, Vaughan. Linda, go to bed and take little snot-nose here with you.
Linda
You're not staying here tonight. Go get sober before you come back, I'm tired of my child seeing this. Now you get your ass straight or I'll lock your ass out of my life for good.
Doyle
If you even think about leaving me, Linda, I told you: I'm gonna kill you deader than a door nail.
Linda
That might be better than this.
Vaughan Cunningham
All right, I'm a witness. I heard you threatening her.
Doyle
Hey, you get the
[shouts]
Doyle
fuck out now!
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Frank
Hey Karl, what are you carryin' around them books for?
Karl
I ain't got no place to set 'em down.
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Terence
We wrote one last night outside the mini mart. Morris called it "Stuart Drives A Comfortable Car" and then like in country songs, you know, in parentheses it says "There's Usually Someone in the Trunk." And, and um, I came up with a tune just a hummin'.
Doyle
See, you don't want to question the genius, Vaughan. Morris here is a modern-day poet, kinda like in olden times.
Morris
Yeah, I got a new tune in composition entitled "The Thrill." And it goes somethin' like this: "I stand on the hill, not for a thrill, but for the breath of a fresh kill. Never mind the man who contemplates doin' away with license plates. He stands alone, anyhow, bakin' the cookies of discontent by the heat of the laundromat vent. Leavin' his soul!" Then like in poetry I go dot-dot-dot, you know, kinda off center, then I drop down and then I go: "Leavin' his soul! And partin' the waters of the medulla oblongata of - -brrrrrr! - -mankind!" That was a damn good song, wasn't it Doyle?
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Dr. Jerry Woolridge
I won't lie to you. He did get into that trouble a while ago, but then we has young.
Bill Cox
I remember well. He cut those folks to pieces and his Mama was one of them.
Scooter
And that old Dixon boy. Oh, hell, I always wanted to kill him myself. Asshole's what he was. But I remember that ol' boy too. Kinda retarded or somethin', back in school.
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Karl
I reckon I'm gonna have to get used to looking at pretty people.
Dr. Jerry Woolridge
Yes you will.
Karl
'Reckon I'm gonna have to get used to them looking at me.
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Doyle
I don't mean to be so damned... well, assholish I guess would be the word.
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Karl
[on the phone]
Yes, ma'am. I've killed Doyle Hargraves with a lawnmower blade. Yes, ma'am, I'm right sure of it. I hit him two good whacks in the head with it. That second one just plum near cut his head in two... It's a lil' ol' white house on the corner of Vine Street and some other street. There's a pick-up truck out front that says "Doyle Hargraves Construction" on it. Doyle said besides sending the police, you might wanna send an ambulance or a "hearst". I'll be sitting here, waiting on ye.
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Frank
You really think it's got peckers in there?
Karl
You know better than that. You ought not say that word.
Frank
It smells funny.
Karl
Yeah, it's pretty loud. Looky there. I believe you right. I believe I see one right in there.
[They laugh]
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Doyle
Was you in the nut house for hackin' somebody up with a hatchet?
Karl
I never used no hatchet that I remember. Mmm.
Doyle
So you're just crazy in a retard kind of way, huh? Wouldn't matter to me if you did do violence on someone. I ain't scared of shit. You're just a humped-over retard, seems to me. I'm just kiddin'. Welcome to our humble home, Buddy.
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Frank
I'd like to kill that son-of-a-bitch. I hate him.
Karl
You ought not talk that way. You just a boy.
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Old Man
I wish you'd all lay off for tonight! I can't hear myself think with that racket!
Doyle
Hey! HEY!
Old Man
Knock it off or I'm calling the police!
Doyle
I told you three times already, the law's on my side! I play cards with J.D. Shelnut, chief of PO-lice! So kiss my ass, you old bastard!
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Doyle
[Karl enters the bedroom, startling Doyle and Linda]
Hey! What the God damn hell you doing, Karl? 'The fuck you doing up in the middle of the night?
Linda
What you want, Hon?
Karl
I wanna be baptized.
Doyle
Well get baptized then, I don't give a shit. Call up a fuckin' preacher, Goddammit, we can't baptize ya.
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Bill Cox
[about Karl]
The son-of-a-bitch's a regular Eli Whitney on a lawn mower and *loves* French fries. 'Son-of-a-bitch can eat four larges and not even belch.
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Doyle
If y'all don't shut up, I'm gonna go out of my mind. Besides, Karl here is liable to bust his spring. He's already off balance.
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Terence
I don't think that's right. I believe the "Dot Dot Dot" come between "Medula" and "Oblongota".
[Morris shakes his head]
Terence
Well, it did!
Morris
The dots are where I say they are. Melody and tune, that's your trade, Terence. You're a tunesmith.
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Melinda
Hi, Karl, I'm on my lunch break. I got you these flowers that were on sale, cause they're not fresh. $2.99, plus by 10% employee discount, since I didn't bring you anything on our date last night. Well, I just thought I'd bring them to you. I enjoyed walking with you. I got a blister the size of a quarter on my heel. Well, see you some time I guess.
[Turns to leave]
Karl
Blisters sure can hurt.
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Linda
Frank's always after a father figure and Lord knows Doyle ain't one with his mean ass.
Vaughan Cunningham
What about me?
Linda
Frank doesn't really see you as a guy-guy.
Vaughan Cunningham
Oh, and Karl's a guy-guy?
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Vaughan Cunningham
I'm just going to say it. I'm gay. Does that surprise you that I'm gay? You know what gay is, don't you?
Karl
I don't reckon.
Vaughan Cunningham
[quietly]
Homosexual. I like men sexually.
Karl
Not funny 'ha-ha', funny queer.
Vaughan Cunningham
Well that's a very offensive way to put it. You shouldn't say that. You were taught that, weren't you?
Karl
I've heard it said that a-way.
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Doyle
To call the police, you push 911 then just tell 'em to bring an ambulance, or a "hearst" if you're gonna kill me.
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Karl
Reckon what you like to eat in there?
Frosty Cream Employee
Well, the French fries are pretty good.
Karl
French fried potaters?
Frosty Cream Employee
Yeah, French fries.
Karl
How much you want for'em?
Frosty Cream Employee
They're .60 for medium and .75 for large.
Karl
'Reckon I'll have me some of the big 'uns.
Frosty Cream Employee
All right, then, one large French fries?
[Karl is silent; Frosty Cream Employee walks to the back never taking his eyes off Karl]
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Linda Wheatley
I'm gonna make some coffee. Karl, you want some coffee?
Karl
Coffee makes me nervous when I drink it. Mmm.
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Doyle
Hey is this the kind of retard that drools and rubs shit in his hair and all that, 'cause I'm gonna have a hard time eatin' 'round that kind of thing now. Just like I am with antique furniture and midgets. You know that, I can't so much as drink a damn glass of water around a midget or a piece of antique furniture.
Linda
Doyle, you're awful. You shouldn't be that way.
Doyle
I ain't saying it's right, I'm just telling the damn truth. He'll make me sick. I know it.
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Bill Cox
Hey, Scooter, did I tell you the one about the two ol' boys pissing off a bridge?
Scooter
I don't believe you did.
Bill Cox
Well, there were these two ol' boys and they hung their peckers off a bridge to piss. One ol' boy from California, the other from Arkansas. The ol' boy from California says, "Boy, this water's cold", and the ol' boy from Arkansas says, "Yeah, and it's deep too". Get it?
Scooter
[laughs]
That's a good one. I do believe you told me that one before. I've heard that one a bunch.
Bill Cox
Yep. That's classic.
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Frank
Mama's got a boyfriend now. His name is Doyle Hargraves. He works construction so he makes a pretty good living, but he don't help Mama out with any money though. He ain't no good. He's mean to her. He don't like me at all. Mama says it's 'cause he's jealous that I belong to my Daddy instead of him. He spends the night at our house sometimes and he's got his own house, somebody told me it's where he can have more girlfriends. I like it on the nights he ain't at our house. I ain't so nervous then.
Karl
How come her still being girlfriends and all with him if he's mean to her?
Frank
She says it's for the times he's good to her. She's lonely since Daddy died, sometimes she says she don't know why. He threatened to kill her if she ever left him. My daddy would kill him if he were still here and somebody was mean to Mama. Vaughan, he's real good to Mama. Vaughan that you met. But he's not able to do anything to Doyle. He's funny, you know. Not funny "Ha-Ha", funny queer. He likes to go with men instead of women. That makes him not able to fight too good. He sure is nice, though. He's from St. Louis, people who are queer get along better in a big town. I wish he liked to go with women, I'd rather he be Mama's boyfriend than Doyle.
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Doyle
What's in the bag?
Karl
This'n that. Tooth paste and whatnot.
Doyle
What's all them books?
Karl
Different ones. One of 'em is the Bible.
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Monty Johnson
This ain't right, Doyle. There IS something wrong with you.
Doyle
Get the fuck out!
Monty Johnson
Nobody wants to take this SHIT, Man!
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Doyle
I don't guess I give a shit. I ain't here that much so if you want a retard living out in the garage, I guess that's your business. But I do got some tools and a set of socket wreches out there I'd rather not have stolen.
Frank
He's real honest. He wouldn't steal nothing.
Doyle
Frankie, I wasn't talking to you, now was I? I was talking to your Mama. It's her decision, not yours. If I let it go on it's because she said so, not you!
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Doyle
Linda, go get my guitar. It's out there with that looney toon.
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Doyle
Frank's a weak little kid. His daddy taught him how to be a pussy.
Frank
Stop it, Doyle! Don't talk about my daddy.
Doyle
"Don't talk about my daddy". Go on and get up outta here. Go out to the garage and let me be. Go on now, get!
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[Karl has entered the bedroom carrying a hammer]
Doyle
What in the hell you doin' with that hammer?
Karl
I don't rightly know. I just kinda woke up a-holding it.
[exits]
Doyle
[to Linda]
What the fuck you think he's doin' with that hammer?
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Doyle
Believe in the Bible, do ya Karl?
Karl
I don't understand all of it, but I reckon I understand a good deal of it.
Doyle
Well I can't understand none of it. This one begat that one and that one begat this one, and lo and behold someone says some shit to someone else - just how retarded are you?
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Karl
There was a boy. We made friends.
Charles Bushman
Ha ha, I'll bet you did. 'Course I was never bent that way, I was always bent the other way.
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Morris
Dots look good on paper. You don't sing them anyway, you're just showing your true Aries color now.
Doyle
Stay out of my goddam face, you fucking buzzard!
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Karl's Father
I'd kick your head in 25 years ago, but you're dead, I guess. Where'd you go to?
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Vaughan
Have you knocked on the door yet?
Karl
No, Sir, not yet.
Vaughan
How long have you been standing here?
Karl
Quite a spell, I reckon.
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Doyle
What am I supposed to do about supper while you're out runnin' around with that fag?
Linda
You're not crippled, get in there and make it yourself.
Doyle
Talkin' back and everything. That kinda makes me horny, Linda.
Linda
Frank, maybe you better go play in your room if Doyle's gonna talk nasty.
Frank
I don't wanna go play in my room.
Doyle
He don't wanna go play in his room. Let's all just sit here and be a family. Until your mentally retarded friend and your homosexual friend get here.
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Charles Bushman
Now... On the third day, I washed her. She wasn't too clean. I got all the right spots. She's the only one I kept for a certain amount of time, because I got a real short attention span. Now, I can't say she enjoyed her stay, but that washcloth I put in her mouth and held it there with a big piece of duct tape kept all her complaining to a min... I don't like people who talk all the time. I like to do all the talking, which is why I think I'm so fond of you, 'cause you're so easy-going. Although I do sense a little tension in you from time to time. So, you were out in the world, huh? What was it like?
Karl
It was too big.
Charles Bushman
Not too big in here, is it?
[Chuckles]
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Doyle
I don't like homosexuals and she goes out and buddies up with one so I gotta deal with that. I don't like little wimpy-ass kids or mental retards and she got one of each livin' with her.
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Doyle
I'm just kidding about that really.
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Linda
This is not your house, Doyle. This is my house and I decide who goes and who stays. You got a house, why don't you get some of your girlfriends and go home to it?
Doyle
You know better than to talk to me like that when I'm hurtin', Linda. Don't make me knock the piss outta you.
Vaughan
Don't you touch her.
Doyle
That's funny, Vaughan. Linda, go to bed and take little snot-nose here with you.
Linda
You're not staying here tonight. Go get sober before you come back, I'm tired of my child seeing this. Now you get your ass straight or I'll lock your ass out of my life for good.
Doyle
If you even think about leaving me, Linda, I told you: I'm gonna kill you deader than a door nail.
Linda
That might be better than this.
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Dr. Jerry Woolridge
You sleep with your mama tonight. I'm gonna sleep with your brother so Karl can have your room.
Daughter
Why?
Dr. Jerry Woolridge
'Cause he's company.
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Karl
I'm your boy.
Karl's Father
I ain't got no boy.
Karl
I'm your oldest boy. Name of Karl.
Karl's Father
I ain't got no boy.
Karl
They turned me loose from the nervous hospital. 'Said I was well. I got hired on by a Mr. Bill Cox fixing lawnmowers and whatnot. That grass out there in the yard has grown up quite a bit. I reckon I might cut it for you.
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Doyle
[Doyle, Vaughan and Karl are in Doyle's truck going to get beer]
Not that you two afflicted sumbitches know anything about this, you're sitting in a crew-cab duallie pickup. In some circles, this is considered a piece of automotive art.
Vaughan Cunningham
Are you sure you can drive? You've really had alot of alcohol.
Doyle
When you been drinking as long as me, Vaughan, you build up a tolerance. Here,
[hands off his beer can]
Doyle
hide that between your legs for me.
Monty Johnson
[the truck picks up speed]
Hey Doyle, slow the fuck down!
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Bill Cox
How are you coming along with that garden tiller?
Karl
I fixed it. It's workin' pretty good now.
Bill Cox
You done fixed it? Well I'll be damned. Scooter told me it couldn't be fixed. 'Course Scooter is about as shiftless as one poor son of a bitch can be. You done fixed it. I'll just be damned.
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Doyle
[shouting]
We don't got no Goddamn band! We don't need to fucking practice, Randy! We don't no shit-ass manager neither! You motherfuckers! You all are a bunch of losers! I'm the only sane son-of-a-bitch here! So get the *fuck* out of my house now!
Vaughan Cunningham
It's not your house, Doyle, it's Linda's.
Doyle
I'll whip the dog shit out of you, Vaughan. I will
[shouts]
Doyle
fucking kill you if you talk to me again!
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Linda Wheatley
Karl, you know what? Melinda here was voted employee of the month at the dollar store last February. Isn't that something?
Karl
Yes ma'am, I reckon.
Melinda
Well, when you like pricing items as much as I do, it's just bound to happen sooner or later, I guess.
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Doyle
Your buddy Karl here is going. We can't be no normal family with him living in the garage and comin' in the damn bedroom at 4:00 in the morning, carryin' hammers and shit.
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Doyle
Hey, Vaughan, I heard you been putting it on ol' Albert Sellers who works over at the funeral home.
Vaughan Cunningham
I know Albert. We're friends.
Doyle
No, I heard you're more than friends. I heard Dick Rivers come in there and caught the two of you all bowled up and going at it in the same room with poor Miss Ogletree, her dead as a doornail laid out on a gurney.
Vaughan Cunningham
That is ridiculous. That is just a total lie.
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Vaughan Cunningham
[about potted meat]
They aren't moving too well, but I'll tell you what, I'll give a couple cans free to the right kid.
Frank
I don't like potted meat. Daddy used to say they was made out of lips, peckers and intestines.
Linda
Frank, don't talk that way.
[about Karl]
Linda
Who's that strange looking man? He follow you in here?
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Marsha Dwiggins
Where will he go?
Dr. Jerry Woolridge
I think he's going back to Millsburg.
Marsha Dwiggins
Will he be supervised?
Dr. Jerry Woolridge
About as much as everyone else, I guess.
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Charles Bushman
A shovel just makes too goddamned much racket.
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Charles Bushman
You gotta make something explode to really understand it. You gotta examine all those tiny particles while they're still on fire.
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Vaughan Cunningham
I don't understand.
Morris
Exactly the point, my young level-headed friend.
Vaughan Cunningham
I don't get it.
Morris
Well, I rest my case.
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Vaughan Cunningham
Listen, everyone, I've had a few glasses of wine and that tends to make me emotional. It came over me in a rush. I just want you to know that I care about each and every person at this table.
Linda
Thank you, Vaughan. We care about you too, don't we?
Melinda
Melinda, Frank, Albert: Yes.
Karl
Yes, Sir.
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Vaughan Cunningham
Please don't tell anybody at the store that Albert was here. You know how this town is. Everybody spreads cruel rumors.
Melinda
You mean about you and Albert being that way...? I think everybody at the store already knows about it. Maureen Ledbetter told the most awful story about why you ain't allowed at the First Baptist Church no more.
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Doyle
You know what, by God?
Linda
What?
Doyle
I know what I oughta do tonight.
Linda
Please don't.
Doyle
Mmm-hmm. I'm gonna call up Morris and have him get the band together. We're gonna have a party. Party our asses off. I'd love to show them that damn Karl. They'd get a real kick out of him. You know they would.
Linda
Please, Doyle, not tonight. They always stay until morning, I'll just give out.
Doyle
You ain't gotta do nothing, Linda. Just put some chips in a bowl and run ice out to us when we look low.
Frank
Last time you got angry and ran Morris and them off and told them to stay away from here.
Doyle
That ain't none of your damn business, besides, that's the way friends do one another! Fuck it, I'm calling them up.
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Mrs. Woolridge
Karl, I hear Jerry's taking you somewhere else tomorrow.
Karl
I don't reckon I know nobody named Jerry.
Dr. Jerry Woolridge
She's talking about me, Karl, that's my first name.
Karl
He's carrying me to look for work over in Millsburg where I's borned.
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Charles Bushman
There was a young man by the name of John Leggit Hunter who ran a filling station business, a good filling station business and he's one of these young men we all come across in life, I'm sure you've come across 'em, who did not deserve what he had and what he had was a beautiful young bride named Sarah. She was a Georgia peach. In fact, she was the picture I had in my mind of the perfect woman so I took it upon myself to take her away from John Leggit Hunter who did not deserve her. Oh, I don't know if I mentioned this but he was a Frenchman who claimed to be an Englishman. It took a lot of strong nylon cord to get her away from him because she was a fighter as well as being a Georgia peach.
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Doyle
Hey! I said get out of my house! That goes for cocksuckers and retards!
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Vaughan Cunningham
I don't think I've seen you here before.
Karl
No sir, I don't reckon you have. I don't believe I ever been in here before. I don't believe this store used to be here.
Vaughan Cunningham
It's been here seventeen years. You live here before, or something?
Karl
I's born and raised here till I was twelve year old.
Vaughan Cunningham
What brings you back?
Karl
What's that you say?
Vaughan Cunningham
Why are you here now?
Karl
They turned me loose from the state hospital, mm hm.
Vaughan Cunningham
Is that right? How long you going to be staying here?
Karl
Mr. Woolridge got me hired on to work for Bill Cox's outfit.
Vaughan Cunningham
Do you have family here?
Karl
Not to speak of.
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