Spring Tyler Quotes in The Truth About Spring (1964)
Spring Tyler Quotes:
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Spring Tyler: I don't know who you are or where you come from, but if that's all you have to say, then shove off!
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Spring Tyler: I'm warning you, Tommy! You just better not start treating me like a girl!
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Tommy Tyler: If you did what you were supposed to, I wouldn't have to keep telling you, now would I?
Spring Tyler: Sure you would... just to keep in practice.
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Spring Tyler: Once you get a hold on something you never let go. It's enough to drive a body wild.
Tommy Tyler: Well it wouldn't be any long drive for the likes of you.
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William Ashton: Where do you usually sail, Mr Tyler?
Tommy Tyler: Close to the wind.
Spring Tyler: Too close, if you ask me.
Tommy Tyler: Nobody asked you.
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William Ashton: What do I do with these rags?
Spring Tyler: Those aren't rags. They're my clothes.
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William Ashton: Sleeping in pajamas is something people do without even thinking about it. That's all there is to it. People sleep in pajamas.
Spring Tyler: I don't.
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William Ashton: Isn't anybody going to tell me what's going on?
Spring Tyler: Not now. You'll find out soon enough.
William Ashton: That's what I'm afraid of.
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Sellers: Where's Tommy?
Spring Tyler: He caught the smallpox... and died.
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Tommy Tyler: Buried me at sea, did you?
Spring Tyler: You don't have to look like that, it was a decent funeral.
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[referring to the copy of Les Miserables Ashton is reading]
William Ashton: You've read it?
Spring Tyler: Uh-huh, a long time ago. Why do you seem so surprised? I'm not ignorant!
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Spring Tyler: Tommy taught me how to read and write... and how to add and subtract, too. Never did teach me how to multiply and divide. He said that would come naturally.
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Spring Tyler: I didn't care much for learning arithmetic, but Tommy made me. He said education is one of the penalties that go with civilization.
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Spring Tyler: I ain't much thought about it.
Tommy Tyler: *Haven't*, not *ain't*.
Spring Tyler: It means the same thing.
Tommy Tyler: A shoe means the same thing as a boot, but a boot's what you're gonna get in a minute.
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Spring Tyler: Seems to me you're always doing things without thinking, Ashton - wearing pajamas... kissing...
William Ashton: Hasn't anybody ever kissed you?
Spring Tyler: You did. Nobody else would dare.
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Spring Tyler: You don't catch me painting myself up, do you? Wearing all kinds of hooks and straps and pumping perfume all over me enough to make a pig sick of the smell.
William Ashton: That's not all there is to being a girl.
Spring Tyler: Well it's enough to turn *me* against it.
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Spring Tyler: I'm me, Ashton. That's all I ever intend to be.
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Tommy Tyler: Think you can get along with Ashton without me for a while?
Spring Tyler: I'll work at it.
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William Ashton: You still angry with me?
Spring Tyler: Nope. I get over things fast; especially people and other diseases.
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William Ashton: You don't think much of people, do you?
Spring Tyler: I don't know many of them. But if the ones I don't know are like the ones I know, then I don't want to know the ones I don't know.
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William Ashton: I doubt he's having a very good time over there.
Spring Tyler: You don't know him. When he's having the worst time, that's when he's having the best.
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Spring Tyler: What are you thinking so hard about?
William Ashton: You really want to know?
Spring Tyler: You tell me what it is, and I'll tell you if I want to know.
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William Ashton: Will you do me a big favor Spring?
Spring Tyler: What?
William Ashton: Stop calling me Ashton.
Spring Tyler: What am I supposed to call you?
William Ashton: Everybody else calls me Bill.
Spring Tyler: Alright, I'll call you William.
William Ashton: [chagrined] Thank you. Goodnight Spring.
Spring Tyler: Goodnight Ashton.
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Tommy Tyler: I want to talk to Ashton.
Spring Tyler: Are you going to shoot him?
Tommy Tyler: Should I?
Spring Tyler: He didn't do anything but keep me warm.
Tommy Tyler: That's what God made fire for.
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Spring Tyler: When you kissed me before... well, I really didn't mind it all that much. So... before you go, will you do it again?
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Spring Tyler: Did you mean it when you said I'm not the worst looking thing you ever saw?
William Ashton: I think you're beautiful.
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Tommy Tyler: You've become pretty fond of Ashton, haven't you?
Spring Tyler: [nods]
Tommy Tyler: Do you love him?
Spring Tyler: [nods]
Tommy Tyler: If he asks you to go with him and marry him... would you?
Spring Tyler: You think he will, Tommy?
Tommy Tyler: Yep. Yep, I think he will.
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Spring Tyler: You wouldn't hate me then if I left you and married Ashton?
Tommy Tyler: I wouldn't take it kindly if you deprived me of grandchildren!
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Spring Tyler: When you get home, I guess you'll start right in sending people off to prison?
William Ashton: I'm not that kind of lawyer.
Spring Tyler: I didn't know there was but one kind. You mean there are good ones, too?
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