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Just copy the line in word for word and who said it. No commentary. If you like, put the chapter and the page so we can find it.

Mine is from Chapter XI, page 14, when Rorschach asks Nite-Owl if he's nervous entering Veidt's Antarctic lair...

"Well, my stomach feels weird and my balls are all shrivelled up, so, yeah, I guess "nervous" will do."

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Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music - George Carlin

So many, but love this one..
"American love. like coke in green glass bottles, they don't make it anymore."

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So it's Rorschach and Prozac and everything is groovy

"I did it thirty-five minutes ago."

Rorschach walking off down the tunnel...

"You quit".

The look on Dreiberg's face!

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Just to be contrary: "Sure, right next to the flamethrowers."

Nice bit of comic relief, you know?

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This is truly a madhouse. And I'm the lunatic running it. I've spent three years wondering if I should be proud or ashamed.

"Nothing ends, Adrian, nothing ever ends."

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The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking. The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I would have become a watchmaker. - Albert Einstein

These lines remind me just how damned cool the dialogue is in the story.

Great stuff!

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"You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it..." is awesome but as stupid simple as it is, no line affects me like...

"Well? What the hell are you waiting for? Do it. ...DO IT!"

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"Joking, of course."

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"Oh, how mortals blame the gods, saying that evils come from us! But it's their own arrogance that brings them pain beyond their share." -- Zeus, Odyssey I: 32-34

Hurm. To me, there isn't just ONE LINE line in Watchmen that stands out. Each character in their entirety are amazing to me. Even when I think about the parts that hit home.. they're usually long speeches. Some stuff that comes to mind:

- A lot of Rorschach. Especially at the beginning and in his sessions with Dr. Long.
- A lot of Comedia. Especially at the flashback meeting & Vietnam in Chapter 2.
- The entire scene and dialogue between Laurie / Jon on Mars.

... on just flipping through right now, one line I really like is "Blake is different. He understands perfectly... and he doesn't care."

But even at that, the entire thought is more impressive to me. The novel is just so cohesive and thought-out. It's not like you can easily seperate one zinger or moment of deep thought encapsulated in a sentence. You can find it in long passages and spread across the entire canvas of each character.

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"Yes, I think I'll create some." (Jon talking about human life)

and

"A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts."

Jon totally has the best lines.

Hey how about
"Hey,....uh, Rorschach....er, how ya doin?"
"Fine thanks, Happy Harry. Yourself?"
I love that line

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I prefer the next line.

"Fine! I'm fuh, I'm fine! And I'm, and I'm glad your fine, too! And uh, and uh... Oh, God. Please don't kill anybody."

Everything about those two panels was perfect.

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This is truly a madhouse. And I'm the lunatic running it. I've spent three years wondering if I should be proud or ashamed.

I love that line. . .

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"Préstame tu peine y péiname el alma. Purificame, no me abandones. Préstame tu sueño y duérmeme. Embrújame, volvámonos eternos."

specially when you consider why coke is called coke...

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Three hundred, here he comes...pretty much just saying anything now...he's coming up on Rorsach...just rounded the far bend...and...HERE HE COMES!

actually i'm not far from vynson! woah!
hehe my version of curiosity's current sig would be shocking!
well what i meant was y'know that coke was called coke because it contained cocaine yeah? well that obviously had to be scrapped eventually - maybe moore's referring to a weakness in rorschach's nostlagia?

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That's exactly what I was thinking! All that for a higher ranking

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"Préstame tu peine y péiname el alma. Purificame, no me abandones. Préstame tu sueño y duérmeme. Embrújame, volvámonos eternos."