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Glengarry Glen Ross

 David Mamet
 

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Aaronow: Yes. I mean are you actually talking about this, or are we just.
 
Moss: No, we're just.
 
Aaronow: We're just "talking" about it.
 
Moss: We're just speaking about it. (Pause.) As an idea.
 
Aaronow: As an idea.
 
Moss: Yes.
 
Aaronow: We're not actually talking about it. Moss: No.
 
Aaronow: Talking about it as a.
 
Moss: No.
 
Aaronow: As a robbery.
 
Moss: As a "robbery"?! No.
 
Aaronow:Well. Well.
 
Moss: Hey. (Pause.)
 
Aaronow: So all this, um, you didn't, actually, you didn't actually go talk to Graff.
 
Moss: Not actually, no. (Pause.)
 
Aaronow: You didn't?
 
Moss: No. Not actually.
 
Aaronow: Did you?
 
Moss: What did I say?
 
Aaronow: What did you say?
 
Moss: Yes. (Pause.) I said, "Not actually." The fuck you care, George? We're just talking.
 
Aaronow: We are?
 
Moss: Yes. (Pause.)
 
Aaronow: Because, because, you know, it's a crime.
 
Moss: That's right. It's a crime. It is a crime. It's also very safe.
 
Aaronow: You're actually talking about this?
 
Moss: That's right. (Pause.)
 
 
 
Moss: In or out. You tell me, you're out you take the consequences.
 
Aaronow: I do?
 
Moss: Yes. (Pause.)
 
Aaronow: And why is that?
 
Moss: Because you listened.
 
 
 
Levene: They signed, Ricky. It was great. It was fucking great. It was like they wilted all at once. No gesturenothing. Like together. They, I swear to god, they both kind of imperceptibly slumped.
 
 
 
Lingk: But we have to before Monday. To get our money ba
 
Roma: Three business days. They mean three business days.
 
Lingk: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
 
Roma: I don't understand.
 
Lingk: That's what they are. Three business if I wait till Monday, my time limit runs out.
 
Roma: You don't count Saturday.
 
Lingk: I'm not.
 
Roma: No, I'm saying you don't include Saturday in your three days. It's not a business day.
 
Lingk: But I'm not counting it. (Pause.) Wednesday. Thursday. Friday. So it would have elapsed.
 
Roma: What would have elapsed?
 
 
 
Roma: I swear it's not a world of men it's not a world of men, Machine it's a world of clock watchers, bureaucrats, officeholders what it is, it's a fucked up world there's no adventure to it. (Pause.) Dying breed. Yes it is. (Pause.) We are the members of a dying breed.
 
 
 
 
 
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