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Burt: Does your husband know you're here?
Amelia: Why? Do you need him to protect you from me?
I want to know how much a gallon it will take for you to go back to being the sort of man who can provide for his family.
Creeley
Amelia: I'm not her, you know. I'm nobody's picture of girlish innocence or goodness.
Seth: Thank God.
Creeley: You are gonna have to show me exactly how you plan on getting this milk into town.
Calvin: Why?
Creeley: Cuz, if I don't know your plan, I don't know how it's gonna fail.
Amelia: How does it feel to go around town with a psychopath?
Bessie: You tell me. At least I'm getting paid for it.
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
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.
