The Singing Detective

солдаты в сцене в вагоне (The Singing Detective) напоминают солдат в формановской The Loves of a Blonde

You always hurt the one you love,
The one you shouldn't hurt at all.
You always take the sweetest rose,
And crush it till the petals fall.

You always break the kindest heart,
With a hasty word you can't recall.
So, if I broke your heart last night,
It's because I love you most of all.

  © Mills Brothers & Wiki

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“Good writers who once knew far better words now use only four-letter words”

Good authors, too, who once knew better words
Now only use four-letter words
Writing prose ...
Anything goes. - Anything Goes by Cole Porter

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Philip E. Marlow: I've not seriously doubted since that afternoon that any lie will receive almost instant corroboration, and almost instant collaboration, if the maintenance of it results in the public enjoyment of someone else's pain, someone else's humiliation.