Interiors (1978)

E.G. Marshall: Arthur

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Quotes 

• Arthur : Pearl collects African art.

  Pearl : Oh! Oh, I love black ebony. Mmm. I own some statues. Actually, they're from Trinidad. Oh, I love those real primitive statues with the big hips and the big breasts. I even have some voodoo masks. I believe in that stuff.

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  Arthur : I had dropped out of law school when I met Eve. She was very beautiful, very pale and cool in her black dress with never anything more than a single strand of pearls. And distant. Always poised and distant. At the time the girls were born it was all so perfect, so ordered. Looking back, of course, it was rigid. The truth is she created a world around us that we existed in, where everything had its place, where there was always a kind of harmony. Great dignity. I will say, it was like an ice palace. Then suddenly one day, out of nowhere, an enormous abyss opened up beneath our feet and I was staring into a face I didn't recognize.

• Arthur : Fashionable pessimism is all the rage nowadays.

• Joey : You know I want you to be happy. I want you both to be happy.

  Arthur : Tell her. Tell Pearl. I know she puts on a gay facade, but she knows how you feel. Tell her.