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“Wendy Torrance: Hey. Wasn't it around here that the Donner Party got snowbound?

Jack Torrance: I think that was farther west in the Sierras.

Wendy Torrance: Oh.

Danny Torrance: What was the Donner Party?

Jack Torrance: They were a party of settlers in covered-wagon times. They got snowbound one winter in the mountains. They had to resort to cannibalism in order to stay alive.

Danny Torrance: You mean they ate each other up?

Jack Torrance: They had to, in order to survive.

Wendy Torrance: Jack...

Danny Torrance: Don't worry, Mom. I know all about cannibalism. I saw it on TV.

Jack Torrance: See, it's OK. He saw it on the television.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: donner party, Sierras, Mountains, Cannibalism
“Jack Torrance: Mr. Grady, you were the caretaker here. I recognize ya. I saw your picture in the newspapers. You, uh, chopped your wife and daughters up into little bits. And then you blew your brains out.

Delbert Grady: That's strange, sir. I don't have any recollection of that at all.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: caretaker, Murder, Amnesia
“Danny Torrance: Dad?

Jack Torrance: Yes?

Danny Torrance: Do you like this hotel?

Jack Torrance: Yes, I do. I love it. Don't you?

Danny Torrance: I guess so.

Jack Torrance: Good. I want you to like it here. I wish we could stay here forever... and ever... and ever.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: hotel, Forever
“Little pigs, little pigs, let me come in. Not by the hair of your chiny-chin-chin? Well then I'll huff and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in. [axes the door]”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: pigs, huff and puff, three little pigs
“Have you ever had a single moment's thought about my responsibilities? Have you ever thought, for a single solitary moment about my responsibilities to my employers? Has it ever occurred to you that I have agreed to look after the Overlook Hotel until May the first. Does it matter to you at all that the owners have placed their complete confidence and 'trust' in me, and that I have signed a letter of agreement, a 'contract,' in which I have accepted that responsibility? Do you have the slightest idea what a 'moral and ethical principal' is? Do you? Has it ever occurred to you what would happen to my future, if I were to fail to live up to my responsibilities? Has it ever occurred to you? Has it?”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Responsibilities, Trust, Future
“Delbert Grady: Did you know, Mr. Torrance, that your son is attempting to bring an outside party into this situation? Did you know that?

Jack Torrance: No.

Delbert Grady: He is, Mr. Torrance.

Jack Torrance: Who?

Delbert Grady: A nigger.

Jack Torrance: A nigger?

Delbert Grady: A nigger cook.

Jack Torrance: How?

Delbert Grady: Your son has a very great talent. I don't think you are aware how great it is. That he is attempting to use that very talent against your will.

Jack Torrance: He is a very willful boy.

Delbert Grady: Indeed he is, Mr. Torrance. A very willful boy. A rather naughty boy, if I may be so bold, sir.

Jack Torrance: It's his mother. She, uh, interferes.

Delbert Grady: Perhaps they need a good talking to, if you don't mind my saying so. Perhaps a bit more. My girls, sir, they didn't care for the Overlook at first. One of them actually stole a pack of matches, and tried to burn it down. But I 'corrected' them sir. And when my wife tried to prevent me from doing my duty, I 'corrected' her.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: outside party, nigger, n-word, racism
“Jack Torrance: Wendy, let me explain something to you. Whenever you come in here and interrupt me, you're breaking my concentration. You're distracting me. And it will then take me time to get back to where I was. You understand?

Wendy Torrance: Yeah.

Jack Torrance: Now, we're going to make a new rule. When you come in here and you hear me typing [types] or whether you don't hear me typing, or whatever the fuck you hear me doing; when I'm in here, it means that I am working, that means don't come in. Now, do you think you can handle that?

Wendy Torrance: Yeah.

Jack Torrance: Good. Now why don't you start right now and get the fuck out of here? Hm?”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: typing, Work, interruptions, Fuck
“Lloyd: Women: can't live with them, can't live without them.

Jack Torrance: Words of wisdom, Lloyd my man. Words of wisdom.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Women, Words of Wisdom
“Wendy Torrance: [crying] Stay away from me.

Jack Torrance: Why?

Wendy Torrance: I just wanna go back to my room!

Jack Torrance: Why?

Wendy Torrance: Well, I'm very confused, and I just need time to think things over!

Jack Torrance: You've had your whole fucking life to think things over, what good's a few minutes more gonna do you now?

Wendy Torrance: Please! Don't hurt me!

Jack Torrance: I'm not gonna hurt you.

Wendy Torrance: Stay away from me!

Jack Torrance: Wendy? Darling? Ligh, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. You didn't let me finish my sentence. I said, I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in! [Wendy gasps] Gonna bash 'em right the fuck in!

Wendy Torrance: Stay away from me! Don't hurt me!

Jack Torrance: [sarcastically] I'm not gonna hurt ya...

Wendy Torrance: Stay away! Stop it!

Jack Torrance: Stop swingin' the bat. Put the bat down, Wendy. Wendy? Give me the bat...”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Death Threats, Domestic Violence
“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: all work and no play
“Here's Johnny!”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Johnny Carson
“Lewis Bodine: We never found anything on Jack... there's no record of him at all.

Rose: No, there wouldn't be, would there? And I've never spoken of him until now... Not to anyone... Not even your grandfather... A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets. But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson and that he saved me... in every way that a person can be saved. I don't even have a picture of him. He exists now... only in my memory.”
— Rose Dewitt Bukater, Titanic
Tagged: Memory, heart
“Cal Hockley: Where are you going? To him? What, to be a whore to a gutter rat?

Rose: I'd rather be his whore than your wife.”
— Rose Dewitt Bukater, Titanic
Tagged: Whore, Wife, gutter rat
“Jack: [deleted scenes] I never cared too much for all that Dadaism and Cubism. Just had no heart.

Rose: I like some of it.

Jack: Really? For me Paris was more about living on the streets and trying to put it on paper.

Rose: You know, my dream has always been to run away and become an artist, Living in a garrett poor but free!

Jack: You wouldn't last two days. There's no hot water and hardly any caviar.”
— Jack Dawson, Titanic
Tagged: paris, dadaism, cubism
“[slowly walking up a staircase to the stern as the ship is about to sink]
Male Passenger: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death...

Jack: You want to walk a little faster through that valley there?”
— Jack Dawson, Titanic
Tagged: psalm 23, Panic
“Rose: Staring up at the sky, Look. It's so beautiful. SO vast and endless. They're so small. My crowd, they think they're giants. They're not even dust in God’s eyes.

Jack: Well, there's been a mistake. You're not one of them. You got mailed to the wrong address.

Rose: Laughs, I did, didn't I? LOOK, a shooting star!

Jack: It was a long one. You know, my Pop's used to tell me, every time he saw one, it was a soul going to heaven.

Rose: I like that. Are we supposed to wish on it?

Jack: Why? What would you wish for?

Rose: Something I can't have.”
— Jack Dawson, Titanic
Tagged: Sky, Stars, Shooting Stars, Heaven
“That's one of the good things about Paris: lots of girls willing to take their clothes off.”
— Jack Dawson, Titanic
Tagged: paris, nude
“Rose: [as she looks through the sketches in his portfolio] You liked this woman. You used her several times.

Jack: Well, she has beautiful hands, see?

Rose: I think you must have had a love affair with her.

Jack: No no no, just with her hands. [turns page] She was a one-legged prostitute. See? Ah, she had a good sense of humor, though.”
— Jack Dawson, Titanic
Tagged: sketches, portfolio, One-Legged, Prostitute
“Jack: Wait! We're passengers! We're passengers! [flushed and panting, Jack waves the tickets as he and Fabrizio run up the ramp to the 3rd class gangway entrance]

6th Officer Moody: [looks at the tickets as Jack and Fabrizio reach the end of the ramp] Have you been through the inspection queue?

Jack: [lying] Of course! Anyway, we don't have lice, we're Americans. [motions the tickets back and forth between himself and Fabrizio] Both of us.

6th Officer Moody: [nods] Right. Come aboard.”
— Jack Dawson, Titanic
Tagged: Passengers, inspection
“[after wining the tickets from a poker game, running through the hallways of the ship with Fabrizio] We are the luckiest sons of bitches in the world, you know that?”
— Jack Dawson, Titanic
Tagged: Lucky, sons of bitches
“Tommy Ryan: That's typical. First class dogs come down here to take a shit.

Jack: That's so we know where we rank in the scheme of things.

Tommy Ryan: Like we could forget.”
— Jack Dawson, Titanic
Tagged: First Class, Dogs, Shit
“[Jack and Fabrizio are playing poker in a bar in front of the port]
Jack: All right, the moment of truth. Somebody's life is about to change. Fabrizio?

Fabrizio: [in Italian] I have nothing.

Jack: Two pairs. I'm sorry, Fabrizio.

Fabrizio: You should be sorry, you bet all our money!

Jack: I'm sorry, you're not gonna see your mom again for a long time, 'cause we're going to America, full house boys! Woo-hoo!”
— Jack Dawson, Titanic
Tagged: poker, Money
“Ruth: Tell us of the accommodations in steerage, Mr. Dawson. I hear they are quite good on this ship.

Jack: [respectfully, playfully, jokingly] The best I've seen, ma'am. Hardly any rats.”
— Jack Dawson, Titanic
Tagged: cruise ships, Rats
“Rose: [She and Jack have just made love in the backseat of the car. He is exhausted and breathing heavily. She puts her hand to his face and caresses it] You're trembling.

Jack: [Panting] Don't worry. I'll be all right.

[He smiles, leans toward Rose and kisses her. They look at each other, and Rose brings Jack's head down to her level; finally kissing his temple. As she holds him, he gently lays down on her chest. She strokes his hair and face as he continues to catch his breath]”
— Jack Dawson, Titanic
Tagged: trembling, reassurance
“Rose: [impressed, after looking at his sketches in his portfolio] You have a gift Jack, you do. You see people.

Jack: I see you.

Rose: And?

Jack: You wouldn't have jumped.”
— Jack Dawson, Titanic
Tagged: gifted, sketches
“[Rose is about to cut Jack free with an axe]
Wait, wait, wait! Take a couple practice swings over there. [Rose chops a hole in a cupboard door] Good! Now try and hit the same mark again, Rose. You can do it! [Rose chops again, missing the first hole by about three feet] OK, that's enough practice.”
— Jack Dawson, Titanic
Tagged: practice
“Rose: [about to dance an Irish Jig with many people watching] I don't know the steps!

Jack: Neither do I! Just go with it!”
— Jack Dawson, Titanic
Tagged: Dancing
“[Jack and Rose are cuddling in the back seat of the car]
Jack: [Implying they're about to have sexual intercourse] Are you nervous?

Rose: No. [He smiles at her; their fingers intertwining. Rose gently takes Jack's hand and kisses one of his fingers three times. She looks up at him and is silent for a second] Put your hands on me, Jack. [He kisses her and she lies down in the seat, with him on top of her]”
— Jack Dawson, Titanic
Tagged: cuddling, Nervous
“[Jack is dancing with Cora]
Jack: I'm gonna dance with her now, all right? [Looking at Rose] Come on.

Rose: What?

Jack: Come on, come with me.

Rose: Jack! Jack, wait. I can't do this.

Jack: We're gonna have to get a little bit closer. Like this. [Jack looks at Cora] You're still my best girl, Cora.”
— Jack Dawson, Titanic
Tagged: Dancing
“Rose: Teach me to ride like a man.

Jack: [speaking with a Southern American accent] And chew tobacco like a man.

Rose: [trying to imitate the Southern American accent] And spit like a man!

Jack: What, they didn't teach you that in finishing school?”
— Jack Dawson, Titanic
Tagged: Chewing Tobacco, Spitting, Southern Accent

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