Other Titles • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Quotes from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
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Clementine: Joel, I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to make them alive, but I'm just a fucked up girl who is looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours. Joel: I remember that speech really well. Clementine: I had you pegged, didn't I? Joel: You had the whole human race pegged. Clementine: Probably. Joel: I still thought you were going to save me. Even after that.
(106 votes)
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Joel: [In the house on the beach] I really need to go. I should catch my ride. Clementine: So go. Joel: I did. I walked out the door. I was too nervous. I thought, maybe you were a nut. But you were exciting. I felt like I was a scared little kid. Clementine: You were scared? Joel: Yeah. I thought you knew that about me. I ran back to the bonfire, trying to outrun my humiliation. Clementine: Was it something I said? Joel: Yeah, you said so go. Said it with such disdain you know? Clementine: Oh, I'm sorry. Joel: It's ok. Clementine: I wish you had stayed. Joel: I wish I had stayed to. I swear to god I wish I had stayed. I wish I had done a lot of things. I wish... I wish I had stayed. [Walking out] Clementine: Joely? What if you stayed this time? Joel: I walked out the door. There's no memory left. Clementine: Come back and make up a good-bye at least. Pretend we had one.
(110 votes)
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Joel: I could die right now, Clem. I'm just... happy. I've never felt that before. I'm just exactly where I want to be.
(101 votes)
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Mary: Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders. [they click glasses] Mary: Nietzsche. Beyond Good and Evil. Found it in my Bartlett's.
(93 votes)
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Clementine: Joely? What if you stay this time? Joel: I walked out the door. There's no memory left. Clementine: Come back and make up a goodbye at least, let's pretend we had one... Goodbye, Joel. Joel: ...I love you... Clementine: ...Meet me in Montauk...
(78 votes)
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[Mary reads to Dr. Mierzwiak out of "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations"; the lines are from Alexander Pope's poem "Eloisa to Abelard"] Mary: How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! / The world forgetting, by the world forgot / Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! / Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.
(23 votes)
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Clementine: [whispers] Meet me... in Montauk...
(12 votes)
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Clementine: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon. Joel: I know. Clementine: What do we do? Joel: Enjoy it.
(11 votes)
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Clementine: Sometimes I don't think people realize how lonely it is to be a kid.
Joel: I don't see anything I don't like about you. Clementine: But you will! But you will, and I'll get bored with you and feel trapped, because that's what happens with me. Joel: Okay.
(10 votes)
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[Hammering noises in the background] Rob: Fuck! Carrie: Rob, give it a rest. Rob: Carrie, I am making a birdhouse.
(8 votes)
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[as Joel and Clementine eat out, he thinks about the other glum-looking couples in the restaurant:] Joel: Are we like couples you see in restaurants? Are we the dining dead?
(11 votes)
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Patrick: Baby, whats wrong? Clementine: I don't know! I DON'T KNOW! I'm lost! I'm scared! I feel like I'm disappearing! MY SKIN COMING OFF! I'M GETTING OLD! Nothing makes any sense to me! NOTHING MAKES ANY SENSE!
(9 votes)
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[last lines] Clementine: Okay. Joel: Okay.
(5 votes)
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Clementine: Look, I'm sorry if I came off a little nutso, I'm not really. Joel: That's okay, I really didn't think you were.
(5 votes)
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Joel: I can't remember anything without you. Clementine: That's sweet, but try.
(5 votes)
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[Mary is stoned, and Joel has just gone off the map] Mary: He could wake up all half-baked and gooey! Mmm, half-baked. I'm hungry.
Joel: Wait. Clementine: Why? Joel: I don't know. Just wait... for a while.
(3 votes)
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Joel: Sand is overrated. It's just tiny, little rocks.
(3 votes)
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Joel: Mierzwiak! Please let me keep this memory, just this one.
(4 votes)
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Joel: My God, there's people coming out of your butt.
(2 votes)
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Howard: He's gone off the map!
(8 votes)
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Joel: [narration as Clementine acknowledges him by raising her coffee mug] Why do I fall in love with every woman I see who shows me the least bit of attention?
(1 vote)
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Clementine: Drink up, young man. It'll make the whole seduction part less repugnant.
(1 vote)
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[Clementine and Joel have broken into an empty house on the Montauk beach] Joel: I think we should go. Clementine: No, it's our house! Just tonight... [she looks at an envelope on the counter] Clementine: ...we're David and Ruth Laskin. Which one do you want to be? I'd like to be Ruth, but I can be flexible.
(2 votes)
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Joel: Is there any risk of brain damage? Howard: Well, technically speaking, the operation is brain damage, but on a par with a night of heavy drinking. Nothing you'll miss.
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Patrick: You know that girl we did last week? The one with the potatoes. Stan: That girl? Yeah, that's this guy's girl. Patrick: Yeah. Stan: Right... Was. Took care of that. Patrick: Well uh, I kind of fell in love with her that night. Stan: What? You little fuck! Patrick: What? Stan: She was unconscious, man. Patrick: Well, she was beautiful and... I stole a pair of her panties as well. Stan: Jesus! Patrick: What? It's not like - I mean they were clean and all. Stan: Don't tell me this stuff! I don't wanna hear this shit!
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Clementine: You know me, I'm impulsive. Joel: That's what I love about you.
(2 votes)
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Clementine: HEY! Lets go out dancing! You want to go out to Montauk with me? Patrick: Montauk? Clementine: Yeah, NO! Come out to Boston with me! Patrick: Sure, we can go next weekend. Clementine: NO! Now! Now! I have to go see the frozen Charles NOW!
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Joel: Can you hear me? I don't want this any more! I want to call it off!
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[Clementine is trying to comfort baby Joel by showing him her crotch] Clementine: My crotch is still here, just as you remembered it. Joel: Yuck!
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Joel: This is working like gangbusters.
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[looking at the letter from Lacuna, Inc] Joel: What is it? Rob: I don't know, it's a place that does a thing...
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Rob: The plane crashed. I didn't crash the plane.
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Patrick: Mary hates me. I've never been popular with the ladies. Stan: Maybe if you stopped stealing their panties.
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Clementine: Joel, hide me in your humiliation!
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Mary: That was beautiful to watch, Howard. Like a surgeon or a concert pianist.
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Joel Barish: Pages ripped out. Don't remember doing that. It appears this is my first entry in two years.
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[Clementine is leading Joel out onto the frozen Charles River] Joel: I don't know. What if it breaks? Clementine: What if? Do you really care right now?
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Joel: Look at it out here, it's all falling apart. I'm erasing you and I'm happy!
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Joel: By morning, you'll be gone.
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Carrie: She decided to erase you almost as a lark.
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Howard: You want to empty your home, your life of Clementine.
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Clementine: I'm fucking crawling out of my skin. I should've left you at the flea market.
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Carrie: You're stoned and you're driving. Rob: Pot balances me out. Pot brings me up. That's I smoke it if I'm going to be drinking.
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Frank: McRomance. Want some fries with that shake?
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Clementine: Let me show you something... come on... Joel: I think I heard a crack. Clementine: It's not gonna crack, or break, or... it's so thick!... Show me which constellations you know. Joel: Um... oh... I don't... know any. Clementine: Show me which ones you know! Joel: Okay... okay... oh! There's Osidius. Clementine: Where? Joel: Right there... see? Sort of a swoop and a cross, Osidius the Emphatic. Clementine: You're full of shit, right? Joel: Nope. Osidius, right there, swoop and cross. Clementine: Shut the fuck up!
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