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An Actor Needs Something To Stabilize His Personality, Something To Nail Down What He Really Is, Not What He Is Currently Pretending To Be.

Rick Blaine: We'll Always Have Paris. We Didn't Have Paris, We Lost It Until You Came To Casablanca. We Got It Back Last Night. Ilsa Lund: When I Said I Would Never Leave You. . . . Rick Blaine: And You Never Will. But I Got A Job To Do Too. Where I'm Going You Can't Follow. What I've Got To Do, You Can't Be Any Part Of. Ilsa, I'm No Good At Being Noble But It Doesn't Take Much To See That The Problems Of Three Little People Don't Amount To A Hill Of Beans In This Crazy World. Someday You'll Understand That. Now, Now . . . Here's Looking At You Kid.

The Whole World Is About Three Drinks Behind.

Rick: Here's Looking At You, Kid.

It Is At Least Worth Arguing That There Is A Modicum Of The Creative Novelist In All Of Us, And That This Absorption With How Men Get Out Of Difficulties, Single-handedly And Alone If Possible, Is The Stuff Of Which We Weave The Warp And Woof Of Our Own Better Dramatic Imaginings.