The Big Street1942

[about Gloria]

Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II:
She's in bad shape, Doc. Can you do something?

Florida Doctor:
I wish I could.

Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II:
Why can't you?

Florida Doctor:
Did you ever hear of a thing called paranoia? No, I guess you didn't. Well, it's what happens to people when they get to believe they're something they're not.

Nicely Nicely Johnson:
Now you're cooking with gas.

Violette Shumberg:
Shut up, Nicely.

Nicely Nicely Johnson:
Don't tell me to shut up.

Violette Shumberg:
I'll tell you to shut up anytime I feel like it, and I feel like it now.

Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II:
Please go on, Doc.

Florida Doctor:
They can go on for a long time and be okay, except when the illusion is shattered. Then they kind of wither up and... phht. Unless it's restored.

Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II:
But if it is...

Florida Doctor:
I'm afraid what that young lady wants, she'll never get.

Agustus 'Little Pinks' Pinkerton, II:
But we can't just stand around and let her die!

[the doctor walks away sadly]

Violette Shumberg:
He ain't a very good doctor, Pinks. Why, last months he treated Nicely for a cold, and it turned out to be chicken pox.

Nicely Nicely Johnson:
You don't have to be telling everybody I had chicken pox at my age.

Violette Shumberg:
If you had chicken pox, you had them. And you had them.