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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind quotes

Director: Michel Gondry
 
Stars: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson

 

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Joel: What a loss to spend that much time with someone, only to find out that she's a stranger.

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Joel: [in the house on the beach] I have to go. I have to catch my ride.
Clementine: So go!
Joel: I did. I thought maybe you were a nut… but you were exciting.
Clementine: I wish you had stayed.
Joel: I wish I had stayed too. NOW I wish I had stayed. I wish I had done a lot of things. I wish I had… I wish I had stayed. I do.

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3.
Joel: I can't remember anything without you.
Clementine: Aw, that's… very sweet, but try.

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4.
I don't ever know what to say.

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5.
Joel: Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

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6.
Clementine: You know me, I'm impulsive.
Joel: That's what I love about you.

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7.
I'm always anxious thinking I'm not living my life to the fullest, you know? Taking advantage of every possibility?

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Joel: I could die right now, Clem. I'm just… happy. I've never felt that before. I'm just exactly where I want to be.

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9.
It was so intimate… Like we were already lovers.

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10.
Joel: [narration as Clementine acknowledges him by raising her coffee mug] Why do I fall in love with every woman I see who shows me the least bit of attention?

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11.
I'm just exactly where I want to be.

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12.
Clementine: Too many guys think I'm a concept, or I complete them, or I'm gonna make them alive. But I'm just a fucked-up girl who's lookin' for my own peace of mind; don't assign me yours.

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13.
Where's the self-help section?

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14.
[last lines]
Joel: I can't see anything that I don't like about you.
Clementine: But you will! But you will. You know, you will think of things. And I'll get bored with you and feel trapped because that's what happens with me.
Joel: Okay.
Clementine: [pauses] Okay.

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Enjoying our more text Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind quotes….

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[Mary reads to Dr. Mierzwiak out of “Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations”; the lines are from Alexander Pope’s poem “Eloisa to Abelard”]
Mary: How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! / The world forgetting, by the world forgot / Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! / Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.

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“Too many guys think I’m a concept, or I complete them, or I’m gonna make them alive. But I’m just a fucked-up girl who’s looking for my own peace of mind; don’t assign me yours.”

—     Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

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Clementine: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon.

Joel: I know.
Clementine: What do we do?
Joel: Enjoy it.

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Joel: Sand is overrated. It's just tiny, little rocks.

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[first lines]
Joel: [voice over] random thoughts for Valentine's day, 2004. Today is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap.

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Clementine: When I was a kid, I thought I was. I can't believe I'm crying already. Sometimes I think people don't understand how lonely it is to be a kid, like you don't matter. So, I'm eight, and I have these toys, these dolls. My favorite is this ugly girl doll who I call Clementine, and I keep yelling at her, "You can't be ugly! Be pretty!" It's weird, like if I can transform her, I would magically change, too.

Joel: [kisses Clementine] You're pretty.
Clementine: Joely, don't ever leave me.
Joel: You're pretty… you're pretty… pretty…

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Mary: Adults are, like, this mess of sadness and phobias.

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[as Joel and Clementine eat out, he thinks about the other glum-looking couples in the restaurant]

Joel: Are we like those bored couples you feel sorry for in restaurants? Are we the dining dead? I can't stand the idea of us being a couple people think that about.

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Clementine: Sometimes I don't think people realize how lonely it is to be a kid. Like… you don't matter.

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Joel: My God, there's people coming out of your butt.

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[Joel calls Clem on the telephone]
Clementine: What took you so long?
Joel: I just walked in.
Clementine: Do you miss me?
Joel: Oddly enough, I do!
Clementine: You said "I do" – I guess that means we're married!
Joel: I guess so!

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Joel: I had a really nice time last night.
Clementine: Nice?
Joel: I had the best fucking night of my entire fucking life, last night!
Clementine: Thaaaat's better!

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Clementine: And in your little brain. You try to figure out, "Did she fuck someone tonight?"
Joel: No, see Clem. I assume you fucked someone tonight. Isn't that how you get people to like you?

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Clementine: I don't need nice. I don't need myself to be it, and I don't need anybody else to be it at me.

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Clementine: Maybe you can find yourself a nice antique rocking chair to die in.

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Patrick: Baby, whats wrong?
Clementine: I don't know! I DON'T KNOW! I'm lost! I'm scared! I feel like I'm disappearing! MY SKIN'S COMING OFF! I'M GETTING OLD! Nothing makes any sense to me! NOTHING MAKES ANY SENSE!

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Clementine: Joel, hide me in your humiliation!

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Joel: Mierzwiak! Please let me keep this memory, just this one.

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Joel Barish: I can't see anything I don't like about you.
Clementine: But you will, you will think of things and I'll get bored with you and feel trapped because that's what happens with me.
Joel Barish: Okay.
Clementine: Okay.

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Clementine: You're not a stalker, or anything, right?
Joel: I'm not a stalker. YOU'RE the one that talked to me, remember?
Clementine: That is the oldest trick in the stalker book.
Joel: Really? There's a stalker book? Great, I gotta read that one.

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Mary: Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.
[they click glasses]
Mary: Nietzsche. Beyond Good and Evil. Found it in my Bartlett's.

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Clementine: I wish you'd stayed.
Joel: I wish I'd stayed, too. NOW I wish I'd stayed. I wish I'd done a lot of things. I wish I'd… I wish I'd stayed… I do.

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Joel: I think your name is magical.

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"Look at it out here, it’s all falling apart. I’m erasing you and I’m happy!"

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“We met at the wrong time. That’s what I keep telling myself anyway. Maybe one day years from now, we’ll meet in a coffee shop in a far away city somewhere and we could give it another shot.”

—     Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2004