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ought to tell you.

I'm involved.

I don't understand.

What is that, are you married?

No, but involved.

So what?

I mean, you telling me

that you're one of those

"one guy at a time" people?

Yeah? Okay.

Here's what I say

to you-

we go out,

don't bring him along.

Right?

Okay, so what does he do?

What, is he a writer?

What, a musician?

What?

Stockbroker.

A stockbroker?

Well, that's interesting.

You know...

He's very nice.

Yeah, I was not

knocking it, you know,

because you do what you can do.

You know, I...

I got to ask you.

Did you see my new script?

Marvelous.

It's even better

than the last one.

Well, you should

see the next one.

It's very exciting for me

to watch a new talent emerging.

May I ask you

a personal question?

Sure, feel free.

Why did you

start writing so late?

Well... Because,

in order to write-

Excuse me.

You got to get experience,

and you got to live,

and life is experience...

So I had to, you know,

get that experience.

Well, here in the city?

You do come from here,

don't you?

Yeah, I come from here,

but I bummed around a lot.

I was a boxer and a seaman,

and all that stuff

you got to be to write.

What, you don't believe me?

Well, should I?

No, but I did bum around a lot.

What about you?

Not a lot.

No, I didn't mean it that way,

you know.

Where are you from?

Connecticut.

That's... That's very ritzy.

It's very proper, anyway.

I was very well-bred.

We're the kind of family

where the biggest sin

was to raise your voice.

Oh, yeah?

In my family, the biggest sin

was to buy retail.

Well, do you guys laugh a lot?

Who?

You know,

you and the stockbroker.

Yes.

Thank you.

The character of the girl

in your script...

You write about women so well,

with such understanding.

Hey, uh...

This is all a la carte.

So, what about tomorrow night?

I'd have to tell him.

I don't know

if I'm ready for that.

Come on.

So you go out with me once,

and then you'll know better.

What? What are you

laughing at?

You're so unexpected.

Well, I didn't

expect you, either.

You call yourself a writer?

Modern American writing

started with

Huckleberry Finn, dummy.

It did?

Hemingway said that.

How about Hemingway?

You're low

on the moderns-

Faulkner, Sherwood Anderson,

Fitzgerald.

All right, give me-

give me two Hemingways

and a Faulkner.

Faulkner.

Hemingway, Heming-

There we are.

The Russians-

Brothers Karamazov.

No more Dostoyevsky?

What else you got?

Diary of a Writer.

Oh, yeah?

I can use that.

Remember, Howard,

you got to pay for these.

No credit.

Don't worry.

Listen, Danny,

I got hit very hard last week.

Long shots come in

like relatives.

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