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Clips from Colette

"I got an advance from Ollendorff."
Colette
"- 25,000 francs. - For what?"
Colette
"For the next book."
Colette
"- Claudine in Paris. - Willy, I-I..."
Colette
"- I can't write another Claudine. - Just write about us."
Colette
"Our lives. Our friends. Change the names and make gossip."
Colette
"- No, Willy, it... - Let's talk about the details later."
Colette
"So, do you like it?"
Colette
"It's indescribable."
Colette
"No such word."
Colette
"A good writer should be able to describe anything no matter what."
Colette
"Is this it?"
Colette
"Your total output for all these weeks?"
Colette
"I've been doing the house."
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"All the repairs, the painting, the tiling."
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"Planting the garden."
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"Bugger the garden. We have a deadline."
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"Well, it's actually quite difficult to write out here... alone."
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"And I don't want to write another Claudine."
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"Are you out of your mind? Do you realize how rare this moment is?"
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"When people are begging for more?"
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"Here, come with me."
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"What would the headmaster do if Claudine had not done her homework?"
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"Willy, don't be silly."
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"What would he do?"
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"Make her do lines. Put her over his knee and tan her hide."
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"Correct."
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"I'll start tomorrow."
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"Willy."
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"- Write! - Willy, let me out!"
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"You will do as I say. I'll return in four hours."
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"- I expect to see some pages. - Willy!"
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"Willy, come on. This isn't funny."
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"Willy! Willy, you bastard!"
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"You arrogant bastard! Let me out!"
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"- Willy! - [pounding]"
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"Open the door!"
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"Let me out!"
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"[woman] Oh, thank you so much."
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"Ho-ho! Ho-ho!"
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"[bicycle bell dings]"
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"[whispering] Colette and Willy are here."
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"So they are."
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"Don't stare."
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"- Sorry. - Here?"
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"Yes. Perfect."
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"Thank you."
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"Mmm. It's delicious."
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"Mmm."
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"Tell me,"
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"how many people in this park right now"
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"do you think are reading Claudine in Paris?"
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"- I don't know. - I'd say at least three-quarters."
Colette
"And the rest of them will soon catch up."
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"What comes here?"
Colette
"Monsieur Willy. Madame Colette."
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"- I have a note for you. - Thank you very much."
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"Mrs. Raoul Duval."
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"Oh, Georgie Raoul Duval?"
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"- Yes. - Wonderful."
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"Please thank your mistress and say we accept the invitation"
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"and look forward to her delightful company."
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"- Thank you. - I will."
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"- Who is she? - Ah, she's an American."
Colette
"She's a wayward debutante from Louisiana"
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"who married a munitions magnate three times her age."
Colette
"They sound dull."
Colette
"He is, but she's anything but."
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"We don't have to go if you don't want to."
Colette
"No, let's go."
Colette
"[people laughing]"
Colette
"That's so funny. Did he really say that?"
Colette
"Of course he did. He's such a colossal snob."
Colette
"Then Madame de Caillavet happened to mention that he was only a baron, not a marquise."
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""Forgive me, madam," he replied,"
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""but I'm also the duke of Anjou, the bishop of Coutances,"
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"the prince of Joinville, of Orléans, and the Dunes."
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"None of which is of the slightest importance here.""
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"[laughing]"
Colette
"Oh, look."
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"There."
Colette
"That's better."
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"[laughing]"
Colette
"- Oh, is the evening over already? - Thank you, monsieur."
Colette
"I can't bear it."
Colette
"Oh, Lily, tell the coachman to go and ready the carriage."
Colette
"Of course."
Colette
"Well?"
Colette
"I'm sorry, ma'am, but, Monsieur Willy, may I have your autograph, please?"
Colette
"Of course you can."
Colette
"Here, I'll even do a picture for you."
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"- There you are. - Thank you so much."
Colette
"- And yours too, Madame Colette. - Oh, come now."
Colette
"No, of course. Spirit should always be rewarded."
Colette
"Thank you."
Colette
"- Good night, my dear. - Good night."
Colette
"Well,"
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"I live at 74 Rue Goethe if you'd like to stop by for a nightcap."
Colette
"I think I'd better retire for the night."
Colette
"Oh. Are you sure now?"
Colette
"- Willy? - We'll play again soon, my dear."
Colette
"Yes, I hope so, before my bore of a husband returns."
Colette
"[chuckling]"
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"Well, au revoir."
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"Au revoir."
Colette
"You don't want to go?"
Colette
"Well, the invitation was clearly meant for you."
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"- Should I? - Yes, of course."
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"You don't mind?"
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"Well, it would be hypocritical of me if I did, wouldn't it?"
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"You can comfort yourself knowing that I will be at home lying in bed,"
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"thinking of the two of you in the fondest way possible."
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"[soprano singing opera on recording]"
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"Come on in."
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"It's a nice place."
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"Thank you. It's my little pied-à-terre."
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"Frederick's not so keen on the art nouveau pieces,"
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"but I love nature..."
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"and women."
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"[chuckles] I can see."
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