Damnation
Thursdays 10:00 PM on USA NetworkDamnation Season 1 Episode 3: "One Penny" Quotes
If this isn't the American dream, I don't know what is.
Tanner
Bessie: So who am I pretendin' to be right now?
Creeley: A respectable woman. How's it feel?
Bessie: Unfamiliar.
Creeley: Then don't get used to it.
Amelia: Why are you reading Gertrude Stein at a farm auction?
Sullivan [looking down at "The Sun Also Rises"] It's Ernest Hemingway.
Amelia: Yes, impersonating Gertrude Stein.
Now ladies and gentlemen, you must allow the American financial system to do its great democratizing work.
Creeley
Amelia: How does it feel to go around town with a psychopath?
Bessie: You tell me. At least I'm getting paid for it.
That's how you get to the bad men. You let them see what they want to see, and then you cut them down.
Connie
Creeley: Don't you get it? All the farmers are organizing according to tried and true European Marxist principles.
Tanner: I don't like the way you talk.
Sheriff: Is that...?
Della: Well, yes, Donald, that is a genuine human turd. A retired school principal from Council Bluffs paid $2.75 to pinch that sucker off while three of my girls watched.
Sheriff: And why would he...?
Della: I brought this turd here as a symbol. Firstly as a symbol as to what we'll all have to eat if this farmers' strike continues on your watch.
Sheriff: Well, you do realize this is an election year.
Della: And secondly, as a symbol of what you will be in my eyes if you run off this cowboy who just might turn out to the best paying customer of my long and illustrious career.
Sheriff: What in the world do you see in him?
Bessie: He's the one person in this town who looks at me like I'm an actual human being.
