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Quotes from Duel in the Sun (1946)

14 quotes
Orson Welles
Narrator: And this is what the legend says - a flower, known nowhere else, grows from out of the desperate crags where Pearl vanished. Pearl - who was herself a wild flower sprung from the hard clay, quick to blossom and early to die.
- Orson Welles (as Narrator) in Duel in the Sun (1946)

Lillian Gish
Laura Belle McCanles: [to Pearl] Neither your father nor I found happiness in this world, and I'm afraid neither will you.
- Lillian Gish (as Laura Belle McCanles) in Duel in the Sun (1946)

Lionel Barrymore
Jesse McCanles: You mean to shoot down unarmed men?
Sen. Jackson McCanles: Just like rattlesnakes if they cross that line!
- Lionel Barrymore (as Sen. Jackson McCanles) in Duel in the Sun (1946)

Harry Carey
Lem Smoot: There's a funny glow in the sky tonight, ain't there? I remember once hearing one of them injun legends about how their ancestors lit bonfires in the sky when the chief's son was dying.
- Harry Carey (as Lem Smoot) in Duel in the Sun (1946)

Joseph Cotten
Pearl Chavez: And you'll forget about... about tonight, won't you? You'll forget it?
Jesse McCanles: No, I don't think I'll forget. I don't think I'll ever be able to. I shouldn't have told you the way I felt. It wasn't fair. There I go again, trying to be fair.
- Joseph Cotten (as Jesse McCanles) in Duel in the Sun (1946)

Jennifer Jones
Pearl Chavez: If I'm not good enough to marry, I'm not good enough to kiss.
- Jennifer Jones (as Pearl Chavez) in Duel in the Sun (1946)

Butterfly McQueen
Pearl Chavez: Oh Vashti, why are you so slow?
Vashti: I don't rightly know, Miss Pearl, except I always have so much to remember.

Jennifer Jones
Pearl Chavez: Trash, trash, trash, trash, trash...
- Jennifer Jones (as Pearl Chavez) in Duel in the Sun (1946)

Lionel Barrymore
Sen. Jackson McCanles: I once fought for that flag; I'll not fire on it.
- Lionel Barrymore (as Sen. Jackson McCanles) in Duel in the Sun (1946)

Joseph Cotten
Sen. Jackson McCanles: So that's where you stand!
Jesse McCanles: I think I'd rather be on the side of the victims than of the murderers.
- Joseph Cotten (as Jesse McCanles) in Duel in the Sun (1946)