Laurence Harvey credited as playing...
Dove Linkhorn
- Preacher: Jezebel! That's right, I mean you! Now both of you sinners are hurrying past.
- Dove Linkhorn: You got no business with us mister.
- Preacher: Oh, sinners is my business. You and that hip-slinging daughter of Satan. You know there's the smell of sulfur and brimstone about you. The smell of hellfire.
- Dove Linkhorn: Who ordained preacher?
- Preacher: I am self-ordained son; I had the call.
- Dove Linkhorn: You were called by the wrong voice mister.
- Preacher: Lord strike this sinner down. Send a bolt down to smite and consume the blasphemer now!
- Dove Linkhorn: He won't hear you. Cause you no friend of God or man - standing there hollering hate to the world. God is love. God is mercy and forgiveness. Try preaching that sometime Mr. Preacher. Teach people to forgive, not to crawl in fear. Teach people to love, not hate. preach the good book - preach the truth.
- Dove Linkhorn: What are you doing here, Kitty?
- Kitty Twist: [licking a cigarette after the statement] I run the candy concession.
- Dove Linkhorn: What are you so mad about?
- Kitty Twist: I'm cold and I'm hungry and a million miles from nowhere and in the middle of a wild dream - you wake me up.
- Kitty Twist: Where you headed for, Dove Linkhorn?
- Dove Linkhorn: New Orleans.
- Kitty Twist: Well, strike me blind. So am I. Oh, I am fed up with this great big, undone hunk of state. I'm going to New Orleans. They better nail it down when I arrive.
- Dove Linkhorn: Hey, you throw pretty good for a girl.
- Kitty Twist: For a girl? Hell, Walter Johnson never throwed better. I'm a big-league kid from a...
- Kitty Twist: [patting her own behind] ... big-league town.
- Dove Linkhorn: I like you, Kitty, but I don't feel like foolin'.
- Kitty Twist: Come here, and I'll make you feel like foolin'.
- Kitty Twist: I got a Ma, up in Kentucky. Like as not she's drunk herself to death by now.
- Dove Linkhorn: Kind of bad, having a Ma like that.
- Kitty Twist: Even if it stinks, it's home.
- Dove Linkhorn: I ain't seen her in three years. I'll never forget the first time I met her. We went swimming together. It was at night. The way she moved in the water, like a kind of a white flash. It was then I kissed her for the very first time. She gave me something I'd never known before. Something I ain't experienced since. Afterwards, in the moonlight, we danced like we was celebrating a miracle. A crazy kind of dancing. And then we sang and shouted like it wasn't real. As if it was in another world. Sometimes I think it never really happened to us.
- Teresina Vidaverri: What is your religion?
- Dove Linkhorn: My religion? It's a girl. Weighs about 119 pounds and gray eyes. She's French.
- Dove Linkhorn: I'm beginning to hate this town and everything about it. I'd like to kick it in. Shake it, bust it wide open!
- Dove Linkhorn: I'd like to know everything about you.
- Hallie: There should be secrets - unknown things.
- Hallie: Well, what are you going to do, just sit there looking at me?
- Dove Linkhorn: If you let me.
- Hallie: Only money buys attention here.
- Dove Linkhorn: Who made you boss of this world? Maybe you can order them around. Maybe you can ride herd on a bunch of poor, ignorant girls; but, not me. No, ma'am, you can't tell me what to do.
- Hallie: Dove, think.
- Dove Linkhorn: Thinking's no good, only feeling is.
- Hallie: Feeling can be a trap. Please, think.
- Dove Linkhorn: The past don't mean a thing. Only the future. If we don't grab it while we can, we'll never have it.
- Dove Linkhorn: Stop talking like a no-good, like you don't know what's right.
- Kitty Twist: A good time is right. Everything else is wrong.