The Swimmer Quotes

Betty Graham: Oh, why can't we travel more?
Howard Graham: What for? We've got everything we want right here at home.

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Jack Finney: You oughta' see the orders I had to send up to his house. French strawberry jam his wife made me stock for her. American strawberries weren't good enough for her.
Sylvia Finney: Plain mustard ain't good enough for Mrs. Merrill. She had to have Dijon mustard.
Jack Finney: Hearts of palm. Hearts of artichoke. Hearts of this, hearts of that... Some rich diet you have up there.
Lillian Hunsacker: Hearts of Jack Finney, that's what they got. [Everybody laughs]

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Ned Merrill: I'll call it the Lucinda River, after my wife.
Peggy Forsburgh: That's quite a tribute.

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Ned Merrill: This is Julie Ann Hooper, our babysitter.
Cynthia: Go run along to your babies, dear.

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Ned Merrill: Nothing's turned out - Nothing's turned out the way - I thought it would. When I was a kid, I - I used to believe in things. People seemed happier when I was a kid. People used to love each other. What happened?
Shirley Abbott: You got tossed out of your golden playpen, that's what happened.

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Ned Merrill: Pool by pool, they form a river all the way to our house.

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