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Daily dialogue — August 4, 2008

Well, this is where you came in, back at that pool again, the one I always wanted. It’s dawn now and they must have photographed me a thousand times. Then they got a couple of pruning hooks from the garden and fished me out… ever so gently. Funny, how gentle people get with you once you’re dead.”

– Joe Gillis (William Holden), Sunset Blvd. (1950), written by Charles Brackett & Billy Wilder & D.M. Marshman Jr.

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