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“I spent my whole life...I spent my whole life making people pay for shelter and all along I didn't realize...I didn't realize it was supposed to be for free. For free.”
— Michael Z. Wolfmann, Inherent Vice
Tagged: Shelter, free shelter
“Doc Sportello: So, what've you been up to?

Japonica Fenway: Escaping, mostly, and I escape real good.”
— Japonica Fenway, Inherent Vice
Tagged: Escaping
“Japonica Fenway: Are you The Great Beast?

Dr. Rudy Blatnoyd, D.D.S.: No, that's a policeman.”
— Japonica Fenway, Inherent Vice
Tagged: great beast, Policeman
“Well, it's dark and lonely work, but somebody's gotta do it, right?”
— Petunia Leeway, Inherent Vice
Tagged: lonely work, somebody's gotta do it
“Shasta Fay Hepworth: It isn't what you're thinking, Doc.

Doc Sportello: Don't worry. Thinking comes later. What else?”
— Shasta Fay Hepworth, Inherent Vice
Tagged: Thinking, Don't Worry
“[to Doc and Sauncho] And to drink, gentlemen? You're going to want to get good and fucked-up before this meal!”
— Paul Thomas Anderson, Inherent Vice
Tagged: Drinking, getting fucked-up
“[to Doc about Mickey Wolfmann] He's technically Jewish but wants to be a Nazi.”
— Aunt Reet, Inherent Vice
Tagged: Jewish, Nazi, Self-Hating Jews
“[referring to the police station] On principle he tried to spend as little time around the glass house as possible. All this strange alternative cop history and cop politics, cop dynasties, cop heroes and evil doers, saintly cops and psycho cops, cops too stupid to live and cops too smart for their own good, insulated by secret loyalties and codes of silence from the world they'd all been given the control.”
— Sortilège, Inherent Vice
Tagged: Police, Cops, Loyalty, code of honor
“[narrating] Was it possible that at every gathering, concert, peace rally, love-in, be-in, freak-in, here up north, back east, where ever, some dark crews had been busy all along reclaiming the music, the resistance to power, the sexual desire from epic to everyday? All they could sweep up for the ancient forces of greed and fear? Gee he thought... I don't know.”
— Sortilège, Inherent Vice
Tagged: love-in, peace rally, Sexual Desire
“Back when they were together she could go weeks without anything more complicated than a pout. Now she was laying some heavy combination of face ingredients on Doc that he couldn't read at all.”
— Sortilège, Inherent Vice
Tagged: pouting, Emotional Manipulation
“[opening lines] She came along the alley and up the back steps the way she always used to. Doc hadn't seen her for over a year. Nobody had. Back then it was always sandals, bottom half of a flower-print bikini, faded Country Joe & the Fish T-shirt. Tonight she was all in flatland gear, hair a lot shorter than he remembered, looking just like she swore she'd never look.”
— Sortilège, Inherent Vice
Tagged: Country Joe & The Fish, Bikini
“[narrating] Well Mornin' Sam, like a bad luck planet in today's horoscope, here's the old hippie-hating mad dog himself in the flesh: Lieutenant Detective Christian F. 'Bigfoot' Bjornsen. SAG member, John Wayne walk, flat top of Flintstone proportions and that evil, little shit-twinkle in his eye that says Civil Rights Violations.”
— Sortilège, Inherent Vice
Tagged: Bad Luck, Flintstones, Horoscope
“[narrating] Inherent vice in a maritime insurance policy is anything that you can't avoid. Eggs break, chocolate melts, glass shatters, and Doc wondered what that meant when it applied to ex-old ladies.”
— Sortilège, Inherent Vice
Tagged: insurance policies, chocolate, eggs, inherent vice
“[Narrating] Doc ran through all the things he hadn't asked Shasta. Like how much she'd come to depend on Wolfmann's guaranteed level of ease and power? And least askable of all, how passionately did she really feel about old Mickey? Doc knew the likely reply, 'I love him', what else? With the unspoken footnote that the word these days was being way too overused.”
— Sortilège, Inherent Vice
Tagged: Interview, Love
“People often ask questions they already know answers to. They just want to hear it from another voice. One outside their head.”
— Paul Thomas Anderson, Inherent Vice
Tagged: Advice, Movie
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