Mainly they're angry, sensitive, intensely felt, and that dirtiest of all dirty words, promising.
10 seconds sound clip from the Breakfast at Tiffany's movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:20:21 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- 'Nine Lives by Paul Varjak.'
- They're not the kind of stories you can really tell.
- Yeah, I suppose they're dirty, too, but only incidentally.
- Mainly they're angry, sensitive, intensely felt, and that dirtiest of all dirty words, promising.
- Or so said The Times Book Review, October 1st, 1956.
- 1956?
- I suppose this is kind of a ratty question, but what have you written lately?
- Lately I've been working on a novel.
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