- Eugene Fitzpatrick: [voice over] Soon they were hooked; all of them. They lived to see their dreams, and when they slept they dreamed about their dreams. They had arrived at the island of dreams together; but in a short time they were oceans apart. I watched helplessly as Claire and Sam were drowning in their own nocturnal imagery. They ignored each other, and neglected themselves. The dreams which should have been flushed away with the first yawn, were now their only diet; and thus became more and more concentrated. They made monsters for themselves that they could neither tolerate nor do without... They wandered in and out of lost worlds. Feelings and figures emerged from a forgotten past. Their dreams became black holes of isolation... They suffered, finally; from a complete loss of reality.
- Eugene Fitzpatrick: [First lines - Voice Over] 1999 was the year that the Indian nuclear satellite went out of control. No one knew where it might land. It soared above the ozone layer like a lethal bird of prey. The whole world was alarmed. Only Claire, couldn't care a less. At the time, she was living her own nightmare. The same dream arrived each night. She was gliding over an unknown land, pleasantly at first, but; then the gliding would turn into falling, the falling into panic, and then she'd wake up.
- Claire Tourneur: If I knew where he was, I wouldn't be here with you. I would be with him! I would be making love with him! Why did I say that?
- Burt: I've given you pantetheine-phosphate. It's a truth drug.
- Claire Tourneur: That's okay. I've given you five sleeping pills myself.
- Burt: Oh, you bitch.
- Claire Tourneur: Is he really a criminal?
- Burt: Waiter! Coffee...
- Claire Tourneur: So what, I'm a criminal too!
- Sam Farber, alias Trevor McPhee: You are so wrong! If you were any more wrong, you'd have ears growing out of your armpits.
- Edith Farber: Terrible things have taken place. But sometimes the greatest happiness happens in the worst times.
- Phillip Winter: For a writer, you don't type very fast.
- Eugene Fitzpatrick: How do you spell nuisance?
- Claire Tourneur: I still love you; but, its a different sort of love, that's all. It's like a ladder.
- Eugene Fitzpatrick: I'm like a ladder?
- Claire Tourneur: Like a ladder with a broken step.
- Eugene Fitzpatrick: [voice over] I'd always cherished the beginning of the Gospel According to John, "In the beginning, was the word." I was not afraid the Apocalypse would read, "In the end, there were only images." I didn't know the cure for the disease of images. All I knew was how to write. Winter had once said to me, "Words won't help us now, Mr. Fitzpatrick." But, words were all I had.
- Car navigation system: Traffic congested for the next thirty kilometers. Unable to provide alternative route. I'm sorry... Claire.
- Car navigation system: You are leaving the map-zone database: you're on your own... Claire.
- Henry Farber: You can't just decide to die.
- Edith Farber: I don't decide anything. I just let go.
- Henry Farber: I'm sorry, my liebe. We've been pushing you too hard.
- Edith Farber: No, Henry. There's nothing to be sorry for. Life ends. But, I've seen finally, after all these years, this is our story, my darling. What a chase it has been. What a dance.
- Claire Tourneur: I am not sharing your room!
- Phillip Winter: You expect me to pay for two rooms?
- Claire Tourneur: I expect you to pay for mine!
- Aboriginal 2: Time for you to get all that shit out of your system.
- [Tradition]
- Aboriginal 2: Sleep between these two old fellas.
- Eugene Fitzpatrick: Bastards! Two years of my life just - wiped!
- Phillip Winter: Oh, who cares about your work? What do you think is going to happen to Goethe? Think about that. Goethe! Gone forever.
- Eugene Fitzpatrick: Goethe? What the fuck would you know about Goethe?
- Phillip Winter: What do you know about me? You think I'm just a pigeon in a hole?
- Car navigation system: Friendly reminder that you are over the speed-limit... Claire.
- Eugene Fitzpatrick: [voice over] As for Claire, the next time I heard from her she was working for Greenspace. Her extraordinary vision had found her a place on their space observatory. She and her crew mates, orbited the earth, watching the oceans for pollution crimes. She stayed up there for six months. She spent her thirtieth birthday - in space.
- Claire Tourneur: [Listening to a Aborigine singing] What's he singing?
- Sam Farber, alias Trevor McPhee: He's singing the country. The country is like their bible. It's like - that tree is Jonah. That rock - is the whale. Everything is part of a story. He's the custodian of this stretch of the country, this part of the story. If he doesn't keep it alive, by telling it, it'll die. And so will he.
- Eugene Fitzpatrick: [voice over] I believed in words. And I believed in the magic and healing powers of storytelling.
- Claire Tourneur: I just want my money back.
- Eugene Fitzpatrick: [looking speculatively at the "Bounty Bear" interface] How much would it cost to set me up with one of these hard and soft?
- Claire Tourneur: Gene?
- Phillip Winter: No, no, no, please. Marry her. Slap her around. But, don't go chasing after this guy. She's not going to fuck you, she wants to fuck him!
- Eugene Fitzpatrick: I don't think you quite understand the nature of our relationship.
- Phillip Winter: Besides, you're out of your depth! To buy a computer from this... you think you're a detective? When you get back from Moscow you'll be broke. They'll have repossessed your car. You'll have... turned off. Your computers will be down. Your garbage won't be picked. You won't...
- Eugene Fitzpatrick: Mr. Winter, admit it! You'd love it but you can't afford it!
- Paris Station Graffiti: The end of the Century, the end of us!
- Claire Tourneur: [the dream-player is out of battery] Gene, can't you make it work?
- Eugene Fitzpatrick: I can't, Clarire. It's dead.
- Claire Tourneur: I'm dead. My heart is dead! Ahhhhhhhhhhh! Ahhhhhhhh!
- U2: I was so near for quite a while/ I was down the hole just passing time/ the last time we met was a low-lit room/ we were as close together as a bride and groom/ ate the food/ drank the wine/ everybody having a good time/ except you/ you were talking about the End of the World.
- Peter Gabriel: Is that a dagger or a Crucifix I see/ you hold so tightly in your hand/ and all the while the distance grows between you and me/ I do not understand/ in the Blood of Eden/ lie the woman and the man/ with the man in the woman/ the woman in the man/ in the Blood of Eden/ lie the woman and the man/ we wanted the union/ the union of the woman, the woman and the man.
- Eugene Fitzpatrick: Do you love him?
- Claire Tourneur: Yes, I do.
- Eugene Fitzpatrick: Well, I hope he loves you.
- Sam Farber, alias Trevor McPhee: I am neither a Spy or a Jewel Thief!
- Eugene Fitzpatrick: What are you, then?
- Singer: In beginning is dream... Halls of Disorder...
- Sam Farber, alias Trevor McPhee: I told them we were on our honeymoon.
- Claire Tourneur: And they believed it?
- Sam Farber, alias Trevor McPhee: So, who am I married to? To a pusher or a bank robber?
- Claire Tourneur: Take your pick.
- Claire Tourneur: I think he's a spy. I didn't think they had spies anymore. I mean, we are here in Moscow in 1999. Actually, I'm not a tourist, I'm a burglar. I've stolen these things to protect a man who has stolen my money. I had it - from other guys - who had stolen it from the people who had stolen it from a bank. Are you following me?
- Claire Tourneur: Remember the first time we came to Tokyo? It was the summer of 1994. Our first summer.
- Eugene Fitzpatrick: It rained all the time.
- Claire Tourneur: We saw the Rolling Stones last concert.
- Claire Tourneur: Do you know who I am?
- Sam Farber, alias Trevor McPhee: Weren't you the angel in Lisbon?
- Claire Tourneur: I am the angel again.
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By what name was Until the End of the World (1991) officially released in India in English?
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