August: Osage County (2013)

Sam Shepard: Beverly Weston

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Beverly Weston : Life is very long. T.S. Elliot. Not the first person to say it, certainly not the first person to think it, but he's given credit for it because he bothered to write it down.

  [chuckles] 

  Beverly Weston : Now if you say it, you have to say his name after it. "Life is very long." T.S. Elliot. Absolutely goddamn right.

• Beverly Weston : My wife takes pills, and I drink. That's the little deal we've struck - a little paragraph in our marriage contract.

• Johnna Monevata : What kind of cancer?

  Beverly Weston : Oh my God, I nearly neglected the punch line. Mouth cancer.