Denys Quotes in Out of Africa (1985)
Denys Quotes:
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Denys: You've ruined it for me, you know.
Karen Blixen: Ruined what?
Denys: Being alone.
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Karen Blixen: When you go away... you don't always go on safari, do you? Just want to be away.
Denys: It's not meant to hurt you.
Karen Blixen: It does.
Denys: I'm with you because I choose to be with you. I don't want to live someone else's idea of how to live. Don't ask me to do that. I don't want to find out one day that I'm at the end of someone else's life.
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Baron Bror Blixen: You could have asked, Denys.
Denys: I did. She said yes.
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Karen Blixen: What's wrong with marriage anyway?
Denys: Have you ever seen one you admire?
Karen Blixen: Yes, I have, many. Belfield's, for one.
Denys: He sent her home for the rains in 1910. Didn't tell her they were over until 1913.
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Denys: I won't be closer to you and I won't love you *more* because of a piece of paper.
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[after placing a gramophone in a field near wild baboons]
Denys: Think of it: never a man-made sound... and then Mozart!
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Karen Blixen: Oh! get away from there! Shoo Shoo!
Denys: Shoo?
Karen Blixen: Oh! That's all my crystal, my Limoges.
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Denys: Don't move.
Karen Blixen: But I want to move.
Denys: Don't move.
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Denys: I'll mate for life. One day at a time.
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Denys: [to Karen, whose horse has run away, leaving her at the mercy of an approaching lion] I wouldn't run. If you do, she'll think you're something good to eat.
Karen Blixen: [staring at lion] Have you - Do you have a gon ?
Denys: She won't like the smell of you.
Karen Blixen: Shoot - shoot it.
Denys: She's had breakfast.
Karen Blixen: Please shoot her.
Denys: Well, let's give her a moment.
Karen Blixen: [as lion comes closer] Oh my god, shoot her !
[Lion approaches Karen then wanders off into brush]
Karen Blixen: Just how much closer did you expect to let her come ?
Denys: A bit. It wanted to see if you'd run. That's how they decide. A lot like people that way.
Karen Blixen: She almost had me for lunch !
Denys: Well, it wasn't her fault, baroness. She's a lion.
Karen Blixen: Well, it wasn't mine.
Denys: Doesn't that outfit come with a rifle ?
Karen Blixen: Ye-ah, uh.
[looks around]
Karen Blixen: On my saddle.
Denys: Better keep it with you. Your horse isn't much of a shot.
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Denys: This tribe, we think we can tame them but we won't. They die in prison.
Karen Blixen: Why?
Denys: They live now. They have no concept of the future; that one day they will be let out. They think it's permanent and so they die.
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Denys: They didn't know it was Limoges.
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Denys: I like animals. Nothing they do is half-hearted. Everything they do is for the first time: they hunt, they eat, they mate...
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Denys: There's country there you ought to see... it won't last long now.
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