I said don’t point at her, you pompous celibate!

Robert ‘Bobby’ Dupea

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[to Dupea] I’ll go out with you, or I’ll stay in with you, or I’ll do anything that you like for me to do, if you tell me that you love me. - View Quote Details on [to Dupea] I’ll go out with you, or I’ll stay…
I move around a lot, not because I’m looking for anything really, but ’cause I’m getting away from things that get bad if I stay. - View Quote Details on I move around a lot, not because I’m looking for…
There isn’t anybody gonna look after you AND love you, as good as I do. - View Quote Details on There isn’t anybody gonna look after you AND love you,…
Palm Apodaca: People. Animals are not like that. They’re always cleaning themselves. Did you ever see, umm… pigeons? Well, he’s always picking on himself and his friends. They’re always picking bugs out of their hair all the time. Monkeys too. Except they do something out in the open that I don’t go for. - View Quote Details on Palm Apodaca: People. Animals are not like that. They’re always…
Catherine Van Oost: You’re a strange person, Robert. I mean, what will you come to? If a person has no love for himself, no respect for himself, no love of his friends, family, work, something - how can he ask for love in return? I mean, why should he ask for it? - View Quote Details on Catherine Van Oost: You’re a strange person, Robert. I mean,…
[out of his car during a traffic jam, yelling at other motorists] Ants! Why don’t we all line up like a goddamned bunch of ants! Its the most beautiful part of the day! - View Quote Details on [out of his car during a traffic jam, yelling at...
Betty: When I was four, just four years old, I went to my mother and I said, "What's this hole in my chin?" - I saw this dimple in my chin in the mirror, and didn't know what it was. And my mother said - get what my mother says - she says, "When you're born, you go on a assembly line past God, and if He likes you, He says, [grabs her cheeks with both her hands] “You cute little thing!” and you get dimples there. And if He doesn’t like you, He goes, [presses one finger on her chin] “Go away.” So about six months later, my mother found me saying my prayers, and I was going, [holds one hand over her chin] “Now I lay me down to sleep…” My mother says, “What are you covering up your chin for?” And I said, “Because if I cover up the hole, maybe He’ll listen to me.” - View Quote Details on Betty: When I was four, just four years old, I…
If you wouldn’t open your mouth, everything would be just fine. - View Quote Details on If you wouldn’t open your mouth, everything would be just…
[to his father] I don’t know if you’d be particularly interested in hearing anything about me. My life, I mean… Most of it doesn’t add up to much… that I could relate as a way of life that you’d approve of…I’d like to be able to tell you why, but I don’t really…I mean, I move around a lot because things tend to get bad when I stay. And I’m looking…for auspicious beginnings, I guess…I’m trying to, you know, imagine your half of this conversation…My feeling is, that if you could talk, we probably wouldn’t be talking. That’s pretty much how it got to be before… I left…Are you all right? I don’t know what to say…Tita suggested that we try to…I don’t know. I think that she…seems to feel we’ve got…some understanding to reach…She totally denies the fact that we were never that comfortable with each other to begin with…The best that I can do, is apologize. We both know that I was never really that good at it, anyway…I’m sorry it didn’t work out. - View Quote Details on [to his father] I don’t know if you’d be particularly…